急求有关happiness and sadness的英语文章

急求有关happiness and sadness的英语文章

How to Be Happy - Why Happiness and Sadness
By Remi Cartier
The 2 concepts are opposite though complimentary. As strange as it can be, there would not be happiness without sadness or misery.
Life is a question of balance, nature is a question of balance, and as part of this universe we need to conform to those most elementary rules.
Take the example of magnets. They need to be a polarity for that physical property to exist. The same apply to many concepts in life.
It doesn't have to be physical properties, but there must be a balance.
When people think: "Ah it would be so cool if everybody was equal". It would not work! There need to be some motion, man cannot stand stillness.
(At least in their whole lifetime)Usually after a certain age people are eager to stabilize, but before they would feel the need to move,
In any directions, but to move. It is like silence. Some people think that silence is death, in the same way stillness is death.
The thing is that it is becoming truer and truer. With manual labors, you could hone your skill till you were the best.
There was a physical limit to the speed you could move. With our mind-oriented society, the boundaries are expanded a lot!
For example, our eyes usually read at a speed of 300 words per minute, but our brain can read/understand more than 30000 words per minute!
The brain is so powerful that a person who really wants to succeed will basically have to learn everyday to reach a sufficient level of knowledge.
Most people thing that because they are not more in schools they don't have to learn anymore. That is a very big mistake! You will never succeed if you think like that. You will stay average and have an average life. Happiness also comes from satisfaction, achievements. If you stay 40 years in the same company doing the same job, you won't get that feeling, and in that situation reaching a happy state will be harder. You will simply be bored, and basically wait for your death. A friend of mine used this sentence to describe this situation.
"People walk carefully to their death"
Finally we have that polarity between people: leaders, people who want to succeed, who will work to it and followers, people who don't want to take decision and live an average peaceful life.
Ask all those achievers how they feel? Few will tell you they want to commit suicide!
On the other hand ask an average guy what he thinks about his life. Many will tell you they have so many things left to do, and will probably never be able to do them!
As a last word, I would say: Stay in motion it is far easier to move when you are already moving! Motion will bring achievements, and achievements will bring happiness!
Man cannot stay in a positive state forever. This would become his normal state, and wouldn't feel happy anymore.
You have 2 options. Either you move forward, and search greater happiness to enhance your general level, or you move backward, or totally fall. Falling is far faster that going backward. It can kill you, or it can re-create that feeling, that need of accomplishment starting in a difficult context. Life is a game; better know the rules to enjoy your life at maximum!
Happiness and Sadness Spread Just Like Disease
There may be a literal truth underlying the common-sense intuition that happiness and sadness are contagious.
A new study on the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological models of disease.
Earlier studies raised the possibility, but had not mapped social networks against actual disease models.
“This is the first time this contagion has been measured in the way we think about traditional infectious disease,” said biophysicist Alison Hill of Harvard University.
Data in the research, in the July 7 Proceedings of the Royal Society, comes from the Framingham Heart Study, a one-of-a-kind project which since 1948 has regularly collected social and medical information from thousands of people in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Earlier analyses found that a variety of habits and feelings, including obesity, loneliness, smoking and happiness appear to be contagious.
In the current study, Hill’s team compared patterns of relationships and emotions measured in the study to those generated by a model designed to track SARS, foot-and-mouth disease and other traditional contagions. They discounted spontaneous or immediately shared emotion — friends or relatives undergoing a common experience — and focused on emotional changes that followed changes in others.
In the spread of happiness, the researchers found clusters of “infected” and “uninfected” people, a pattern considered a “hallmark of the infectious process,” said Hill. “For happiness, clustering is what you expect from contagion rates. Whereas for sadness, the clusters were much larger than we’d expect. Something else is going on.”
Happiness proved less social than sadness. Each happy friend increased an individual’s chances of personal happiness by 11 percent, while just one sad friend was needed to double an individual’s chance of becoming unhappy.
Patterns fit disease models in another way. “The more friends with flu that you have, the more likely you are to get it. But once you have the flu, how long it takes you to get better doesn’t depend on your contacts. The same thing is true of happiness and sadness,” said David Rand, an evolutionary dynamics researcher at Harvard. “It fits with the infectious disease framework.”
The findings still aren’t conclusive proof of contagion, but they provide parameters of transmission rates and network dynamics that will guide predictions tested against future Framingham results, said Hill and Rand. And whereas the Framingham study wasn’t originally designed with emotional information in mind, future studies tailored to test network contagion should provide more sophisticated information.
Both Hill and Rand warned that the findings illustrate broad, possible dynamics, and are not intended to guide personal decisions, such as withdrawing from friends who are having a hard time.
“The better solution is to make your sad friends happy,” said Rand.
Quotations By Category: 'Happiness / Sadness'

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
John Powell
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Rabbi H. Schachtel , The Real Enjoyment of Living
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
He who laughs last didn't get it.
Helen Giangregorio
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
Bertolt Brecht


He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
Terry Cohen
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Seen on a bumper sticker
He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
Bob Edwards
In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
Lyn Karol
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Walt Kelly
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
Sir J. Lubbock
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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