The key to happiness is to keep yourself busy, according to researchers from the University of Chicago.

芝加哥大学的研究人员表示，快乐的秘诀是使自己处于忙碌的状态。

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I'd tried to keep the happiness of gardening to myself, and here was a child who couldn't wait to share with others.

我一直想把园艺的快乐留给自己，而这里有一个迫不及待地想和别人分享的孩子。

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But until he unpacked his own baggage, he couldn't be happy anywhere he went. Until he sat still with himself, he was doomed to keep waiting for his happiness and his life to begin.

然而，无论去到天涯海角，心中的包袱放不下，他便不得快乐，而注定只能不断地等待，等待快乐，等待生活的起航，直到有一天他可以静静地安坐在自我身边。

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"If we keep defining our happiness through how much we consume it's going to lead to tragic end,"

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and all they are willing to endure."

如何获得，如何保持，如何重获快乐，是多数人时刻怀有的秘密动机，是他们愿意忍受一切的目的“

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Research by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, shows that reversible, keep-your-options-open decisions reliably lead to lower levels of satisfaction than irreversible ones.

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