CHAPTER 6 IN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS
第六章 知足常樂
If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that had rolled under the radiator, striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.
W. Beran Wolfe (1900-35)
如果你觀察一個真正快樂的人，你會發現他正在造船、寫交響樂、教育孩子、種天竺牡丹花或在戈壁沙漠尋找恐龍蛋。總之，他不會是在尋找快樂，好像在尋找一個滾到暖氣機下面的衣領扭扣一樣，他不會將快樂自身當目標來尋找。在一天滿滿二十四小時的生活中，他會知道他是快樂的。
W.倍仁 華爾夫(1900-35)
Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes indirectly as a dividend. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64), adapted
在這個世界，快樂即使會來臨，也是間接的像紅利一樣來臨。將快樂當目標一樣追求，只是像抓野鵝一樣白費力氣，絕不會達成。
那沙尼爾 霍桑(1804-64)，改寫
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
Chuang-tzu (369-286 B.C.)
我的意見是，除非你停止尋找，否則找不到快樂。
莊子(西元前369-286)
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there can be no happiness greater than this.
Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945)
如果我的心能夠變得像小孩那樣純真，我想不會有更大的快樂了。
西田 木太郎(1870-1945)
O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!
John Keats(1795-1821)
喔，希望能有感官的生命，而不是思維的生命。
約翰 基特(1795-1821)
If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.
Carl Jung (1875-1961), adapted
如果你不快樂，一定是太會動頭腦了。
容格(1875-1961)
In those moments when we forget ourselves-not thinking, “Am I happy? “, but completely oblivious to our little ego - we spend a brief but beautiful holiday in heaven.
Eknath Easwaran
當我們忘了自己，不去思考「我快樂嗎?」。完全忘記小小的自我-----我們就在天堂度過一個短暫而美麗的假期。
依克那斯 依斯瓦藍
Why aren‘t you happy? It’s because 99% of everything you do, and say, and think, is for yourself.
Wei Wu Wei (Terence Gray)(1895-1986)
為什麼你不快樂？因為你所做、所說、所想的，百分之九十九是為了你自己。
魏無畏(太仁斯 葛雷)(1895-1986)
To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.
Kigen Dogen (1200-53)
忘了自我就會受一切東西啟發。
奇兼 都兼(1200-53)
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugh Black
追尋快樂就會失去快樂，這是生命的矛盾。持久的快樂的首要條件，恰好是生命要充滿目的，但是，是針對自我之外的目的。
休 布雷克
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
對於真正的快樂許多人都有錯誤的觀念。真正的快樂不是透過滿足自我，而是透過忠於有價值的目標達成。
海倫 凱勒(1880-1968)
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940)
真實的喜悅不是來自舒適、財富或別人的讚賞，而是來自做出值得做的事。
威爾佛雷得 格藍費爾 爵士(1865-1940)
If you are suffering from a lack of self-worth, perhaps you are not doing anything worthwhile.
Anonymous
如果你因為缺少自我價值而受苦，可能是因為你沒有做任何有價值的事情。
無名氏
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving. No self-centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.
Joseph Fort Newton (1880-1950)
快樂很容易，只要我們佈施自己，原諒別人，在感恩之中生活。自我中心的人和不知感謝的靈魂不可能快樂，更不可能讓別人快樂。生命是給予，不是獲得。
約瑟夫 伏特 牛頓(1880-1950)
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Montesquieu (1688-1755)
如果只是想要快樂，這很容易達成;但是，我們希望比別人更快樂，這總是困難的，因為我們相信他們比真實的還要快樂。
孟德斯鳩(1688-1755)
Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.
John Powell
比較是真正的自我滿足的破滅。
約翰 包威爾
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
人生有兩個目的:第一，得到你想要的，接著，享受它。只有最聰明的人達到第二個。
羅根 皮爾沙 史密斯(1865-1946)
Don‘t let the good things of life rob you of the best things.
Maltbie D. Babcock
不要讓生命中的好東西搶走了你最好的東西。
馬特比D.巴布寇克
Who seeks more than he has hinders himself from enjoying what he has.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-58)
有了還追求更多的人，會妨害自己享受已有的。
所羅門 衣恩 家比羅(1021-58)
Compare what you want with what you have, and you‘ll be unhappy; compare what you have with what you deserve and you’ll be happy.
Evan Esar
用你所求比你所有，你不會快樂;用你所有比你應得，你將會快樂。
依凡 以薩
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
Bernard de Fontenelle (1657-1757)
期望太多是快樂的大障礙。
薄那德 底 逢提內爾(1657-1757)
Contentment is a pearl of great value, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
Balguy, adapted
滿足是一串極珍貴的珍珠，任何人用一萬個慾望來換取它，都是聰明而快樂的採購。
巴而蓋，改寫
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
知足的祕密在於知道如何享受已經擁有的，並且能夠丟掉無法達到的物慾。
林語堂(1895-1976)
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1894-1962), The serenity prayer
上帝賜予我平靜以接受我無法改變的東西，賜予我勇氣來改變我能改變的，賜予我智慧來知道二者的區別。
雷恩霍得 尼布爾(1894-1962),靜心禱告
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it just annoys the pig.
Author Unknown
絕不要試著教豬唱歌。這會浪費你的時間，而且只會惹豬生氣。
作者不詳
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
快樂最主要的意義是願意做自己。
德西德理爾斯 一拉司馬斯(1466-1536)
Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
快樂不是擁有你所要的，而是要你所擁有的。
孔子(西元前551-479)
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.
Buddha‘s Little Instruction Book
毀譽，得失，歡樂悲傷，像風一樣來來去去。要快樂，就像大樹一樣靜靜的在其間休息。
釋迦摩尼小乘經典
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. Remember, there is nothing wrong with nature; the trouble is in ourselves.
Parks Cousins
外在的事物怎麼看，依照我們內在事物是什麼而定。記住，自然界沒有錯，煩惱在我們內在。
帕克 寇心斯
No matter what you are doing, keep the under-current of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.
Paramahansa Yogananda
無論你在做什麼，保持住快樂的基流。不管任何環境，學著在內心祕密的快樂。
巴拉馬韓撒 猷嘉南大
When some external event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
當某些外在事件讓你精神大振，讓你覺得好日子在等著你，別相信。絕不會這樣。除了你自己，沒有東西會帶給你平安。
拉夫 華爾多 愛默生(1803-82)
There is nothing outside you. That is what you must ultimately learn.
A course in Miracles
在你之外沒有東西。這是你最終必須學習的。
奇蹟的路
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus (1913-60)
在嚴冬;我終於學到了，我的內在存在著無法征服的夏季。
愛伯特 卡模斯(1913-60)
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)
我注意到，一般而言，人們決心要多快樂就會多快樂。
愛伯翰 林肯(1809-65)
Few things are needed to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; this is the reason so many of mankind are miserable.
Francois La Rochefoucauld (1613-80)
有智慧的人只需要少許東西就會快樂，愚蠢的人沒什麼東西能讓他滿足;這是許多人陷於悲慘的原因。
法藍休斯 拉 羅協方考德(1613-80)
Happiness is a present attitude - not a future condition.
Hugh Prather
快樂是當下的態度---不是未來的狀態。
休 菩拉舍
Remember happiness doesn‘t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
記住，快樂不是依靠你是什麼、或者你有什麼;快樂僅僅依你所想的而定。
戴爾 卡內基 (1888-1955)
Like it or not, life is lived in and through the mind.
Anonymous
不論喜不喜歡，生命活在心中,通過心中。
作者不詳
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he purposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
某些人對人性極少了解，他們想改變事物而非改變自己的性格來追求快樂。他們會浪費生命在無謂的努力，也會加倍他們想解除的痛苦。
撒謬爾 詹森(1709-84)
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner (1813-83)
喜悅不存在於事物;喜悅存在於我們自身。
理察 華格納（1813-83）
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)
除了你選擇加上去的價值，生命中沒有別的價值;除了你帶給自己的快樂，其他地方找不到快樂。
亨利 大衛 索理奧(1817-62)
If you cannot be happy here and now, you never will be.
Taisen Deshimaru, adapted
如果此時此地你不快樂，你永遠不會快樂。
太森 得西馬路，改寫
Wherever I go, there I am.
Aristotle (384-22 B.C.)
無論我到哪裡，我人都會在那裡。
亞里斯多德(西元前384-22)
Paradise is where I am.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
天堂就是我在的地方。
伏爾泰（1694-1778）
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois La Rochefoucauld (1613-80)
如果在我們自身找不到滿足，到別的地方尋找也是徒然。
法藍休斯 拉 羅協方考德(1613-80)
I am never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard (1864-1910)
我在任何地方都不會無聊，無聊是對自己的侮辱。
茱理 瑞納(1864-1910)
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
快樂不是到達的狀態，而是一種旅行的態度。
撒謬爾 詹森(1709-84)
The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life‘s destruction.
Hazrat Inayat Khau
生命的祕密是平衡，缺少平衡是生命的毀滅。
哈資拉 以納亞 考
Nothing in excess.
Inscription in the Temple of Apollo Delphi, Greece
沒有東西是多餘的。
阿波羅神殿碑文，希臘古都特耳菲
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
Channing Pollock (1880-1946)
快樂是匱乏和過剩中間的一個小站。
錢寧 波羅克(1880-1946)
Happiness is found in the golden middle of two extremes.
Aristotle (384-22 B.C.)
快樂會在兩極端的黃金中間點發現。
亞里斯多德（西元前384-22）
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry, live simply, expect little, give much.
Barney O‘Lavin
快樂之道:內心遠離仇恨、遠離憂慮，活得單純，期待少，給得多。
巴涅 歐拉文
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
Aristotle (384-22 B.C.)
真正的快樂源自於擁有智慧和美德，而不是因為擁有外在的物品。
亞里斯多德（西元前384-22）
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
Sophocles(496-06 B.C.)
沒有智慧就沒有快樂。
搜佛克理斯(西元前496-06)
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now.
The place to be happy is here.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-99)
快樂是唯一的善。
快樂的時間是現在。
快樂的地方是這裡。
快樂的方法是讓別人快樂。
羅伯G.殷格索耳(1833-99)
