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
.Once I heard a bald man said, “whenever I enter a room
I see is hair.” Once you’ve
what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will
make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different
, or forget about it and
the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have a relatively
life, yet are essentially unhappy. while people who have suffered a great deal but
remain happy.
The first
is gratitude. All happy people are
. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to
, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
The second secret is
that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The most obvious
are those pursuit that give our lives purpose — anything
studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are
to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our
has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We
a spiritual faith, or a philosophy, it should
this truth: if you choose to find the
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
your decision to make.
小题1: | A.different | B.missing | C.short | D.broken |
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小题2: | A.nothing | B.none | C.all | D.anything |
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小题3: | A.determined | B.predicted | C.assumed | D.imagined |
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小题4: | A.completely | B.naturally | C.hopefully | D.really |
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小题5: | A.tile | B.brick | C.ceiling | D.house |
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小题6: | A.look on | B.focus on | C.count on | D.rely on |
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小题7: | A.peaceful | B.difficult | C.easy | D.ordinary |
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小题8: | A.certainly | B.merely | C.hardly | D.generally |
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小题9: | A.secret | B.factor | C.rule | D.key |
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小题10: | A.wealthy | B.grateful | C.proud | D.generous |
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小题11: | A.upset | B.quarrel | C.complain | D.depress |
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小题12: | A.admitting | B.assuming | C.proving | D.realizing |
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小题13: | A.sources | B.results | C.answers | D.goals |
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小题14: | A.among | B.from | C.through | D.for |
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小题15: | A.probable | B.possible | C.likely | D.capable |
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小题16: | A.value | B.destination | C.survival | D.existence |
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小题17: | A.need | B.lack | C.demand | D.expect |
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小题18: | A.involve | B.include | C.absorb | D.mean |
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小题19: | A.worst | B.best | C.positive | D.negative |
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小题20: | A.absolutely | B.totally | C.exactly | D.largely |
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