The key to happiness is this:Dedicate yourself to the developement of your natural talents and abilities by doing what you love to do, and doing it better and better in the service of a cause that is greater than yourself.

  However, most people are reluctant to use their own happiness as the standard by which to judge the events in their lives. This is primarily because we let others define or affect what brings us happiness. And we often believe it is more important to make other people happy than it isto make ourselves happy.This is nonsense.

  The fact is that you can't give away to anyone else what you don't have for yourself just as you can't give money to the poor if you don't have any, youcan't make someone else happy if you yourself are miserable.

  That is, compare every possible action and decision against your standard of happiness to see whether if would make you happier of unhappier. Soon, you will discover that that almost all the problems in your life come from choices that you have made-or are currently making-that do not contribute to your happiness.

  You feel really happy only when you are moving,step-by-step, toward the accomplishment of clearly defined goals that you feel will enhance the quality of your happiness.

  So resolve to persist until you succeed. The first part of courage is hte resolve to launch in faith toward your obiectives; the second part is your willingness to endure in the face of the inevitable disappointments and setbacks you will encounter on the road.

    摘抄的一篇文章，写得非常不错。每个人对幸福都有很多自己的理解，但是又有多少人真正悟透了幸福的真谛？幸福是一个大命题。