The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

  • -- Chauncey Wright 他的学生赖特

习惯所带来的痛苦,以及遵循习惯所带来的内在乐趣,都是大自然赋予我们意志的动机,通常我们并不在意为什么要这样做;她有时甚至命令说,她的理由决不是我们的。

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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really  mean anything.

生活是由微小的快乐组成的。幸福是由那些微小的成功组成的。大地震来的太不频繁了。如果你不把这些小的成功都收集起来,那么大的成功就没有任何意义。

Just when I thought I was over you and just when I thought I could stand on my own. Oh, baby those memories come crashing through, and I just can’t go on without you.

就在我以为我已经忘了你,就在我以为我可以独立的时候。哦,宝贝,那些记忆突然出现,没有你我无法继续。

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

照顾孩子是一种舞蹈,在设置适当的限制作为照顾者和避免不必要的权力斗争,导致不快乐。

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

我开始相信关心自己不是自我放纵。关心自己是一种生存的行为。

That is precisely the trouble with sheer pleasure--its sheerness.

这正是纯粹快乐的问题所在——它的复杂性。

We'd be nowhere without our looks.

没有我们的外表,我们将一事无成。