Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  • -- Sir Norman MacEwen 诺曼·麦克温爵士

幸福与其说是拥有不如说是分享。我们靠得到的东西生活,但我们靠给予的东西生活。

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Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

送礼物是一种天赋;要知道一个人想要什么,知道何时以及如何得到它,要充满爱心地把它给予他人。除非一个角色拥有这种天赋,否则没有比接受和给予礼物更容易毁灭的时刻了。

There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.

当一个人感到我们同情他、理解他时,我们最喜欢看到他眼中流露出的快乐。在这些时刻,两个朋友之间传递着美好的精神。这些都是值得活下去的时刻。

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

所以我希望他们能养成一种习惯,让他们明白他们的生活是如此的充实,以至于他们能够以各种方式给予他人。我认为这是灵性的底线。

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

同样,如果一个国家浪费了它的一部分财富,或失去了它的一部分贸易,它就不能保持它以前拥有的同样数量的流通媒介。

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

我们所说的慷慨,在很大程度上只是给予的虚荣心;我们这样做是因为我们更喜欢虚荣心而不是我们给予的东西。

Sharing his memories felt like handing over a sharp knife. A knife that others might handle carelessly. A knife that could be used to hurt him.

分享他的记忆就像递上一把锋利的刀。一把别人可能不小心拿着的刀。一把可以用来伤害他的刀。

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

财富并非没有它的优点,相反的情况,虽然它经常被提出,但从来没有被证明具有广泛的说服力。

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

只有穷人才懂得给予的奢侈!