What is happiness? Different people have different ideas. Some people are rich; they think they are happy. Other people have many friends, so they feel happy. Still others are happy because their lives are meaningful. Happiness attracts everyone. For children, happiness often suggests eating something good or playing with toys. For a stamp collector, stamps bring more delight than meals. And for a scientist, a discovery or an invention rather than anything else gives him greatest satisfaction.
There was once a beggar who was always happy. The king saw him and wondered why he was so happy because he was so poor. However, the king could have whatever he wanted; yet he himself was not happy at all. Thus we can see one's happiness doesn't depend on whether he is rich or poor. Happiness is a state of mind. As long as one thinks he's content and satisfied, he is happy.
As everything exist only because its opposite, happiness exists only when pain exists. Just as a person who does not know failure never knows success, a person, who has not experienced suffering or sadness never knows what happiness means..
Happiness always promises a hope by which people go on living. When they come to the point of losing hope because they have suffered a great deal, it is often the time when happiness comes that will give them the courage and desire to live.
Cheer up and be happy. Happiness is not far from you. It's just around you. Try to grasp it and enjoy it.
相关单词：meaningful
meaningful解释：adj.意味深长的；富有意义的
meaningful例句：
They exchanged meaningful looks.他们彼此意味深长地交换了一下眼色。
The article has a meaningful ending.这篇文章的结尾意味深长。
相关单词：delight
delight解释：n.高兴，愉快；vt.给（某人）乐趣；使愉快；vi.喜爱
delight例句：
Your new book is a real delight!你的新书真讨人喜欢！
He takes delight in annoying me.他以惹我生气为乐。
相关单词：beggar
beggar解释：n.乞丐，穷人，募捐者
beggar例句：
The beggar begged from the rich but they refused.那个乞丐向富人们乞讨，但遭到了拒绝。
He is so rich and lives like a beggar.他非常有钱可是生活得象个乞丐。
相关单词：satisfied
satisfied解释：adj.满意的，满足的；清偿过的；确信的，毫无疑问的v.使满意( satisfy的过去式和过去分词)
satisfied例句：
She's never satisfied with what she's got. 她对自己的所得从不感到满足。
He had a self-satisfied smirk on his face. 他脸上挂着得意扬扬的笑容。
相关单词：experienced
experienced解释：adj.有经验的；经验丰富的，熟练的
experienced例句：
Experienced seamen will advise you
Perhaps you and I had better change over;you are more experienced.也许我们的工作还是对换一下好，你比我更有经验。
相关单词：means
means解释：n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富
means例句：
That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
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