One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It's like looking at the tiled(铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is
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Once I heard a bald(秃头的) man said. “Whenever I enter a room,
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I see is hair." Once you've
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what your missing tile is, explore whether getting it will
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make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different
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, or forget about it and
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the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have had a relatively
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life, yet are often unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but
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remain happy.
The first
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is gratitude. All happy people are
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. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to
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, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
The second secret, is
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that happiness is a byproduct(副产品) of something else. The most obvious
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are those pursuits(追求) that give our lives purpose—anything
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studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are
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to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our
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has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We
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a spiritual faith, or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy, it should
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this truth: if you choose to find the
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in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is
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your decision to make.
| 小题21: | | A．different | B．missing | C．short | D．broken |
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| 小题22: | | A．nothing | B．none | C．all | D．anything |
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| 小题23: | | A．determined | B．predicted | C．assumed | D．imagined |
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| 小题24: | | A．completely | B．naturally | C．hopefully | D．really |
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| 小题25: | | A．tile | B．brick | C．ceiling | D．house |
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| 小题26: | | A．look on | B．focus on | C．count on | D．decide on |
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| 小题27: | | A．peaceful | B．difficult | C．easy | D．ordinary |
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| 小题28: | | A．certainly | B．merely | C．hardly | D．generally |
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| 小题29: | | A．secret | B．factor | C．rule | D．key |
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| 小题30: | | A．wealthy | B．grateful | C．proud | D．generous |
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| 小题31: | | A．upset | B．quarrel | C．complain | D．depress |
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| 小题32: | | A．admitted | B．assuming | C．proving | D．realizing |
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| 小题33: | | A．sources | B．results | C．answers | D．goals |
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| 小题34: | | A．among | B．from | C．through | D．for |
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| 小题35: | | A．probable | B．possible | C．likely | D．capable |
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| 小题36: | | A．value | B．destination | C．survival | D．existence |
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| 小题37: | | A．need | B．lack | C．demand | D．expect |
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| 小题38: | | A．involve | B．include | C．absorb | D．mean |
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| 小题39: | | A．worst | B．best | C．positive | D．negative |
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| 小题40: | | A．absolutely | B．totally | C．exactly | D．Largely |
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