Since these messages have an agenda—to lure us to open our wallets—they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.

由于这些信息有一个目的——引诱我们打开钱包——它们使得幸福这一概念看起来不可靠。

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Happiness is a door that is always open, and we are the ones who have to decide if we are going to walk through the door.

幸福是一扇永远敞开的门，而我们自己是得决定是否要走进这扇门的人。

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Happiness is just an open volume of poetry, which writes poems about those ordinary lanes under the city sky.

幸福就是一本摊开的诗篇，关于在城市的天空下，那些寻常巷陌的诗。

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We want a nudge toward happiness, a little magic to open the pressure valve of everyday life -- the sublime thrill of transcendence to be found in a Mendelssohn symphony or a Turner landscape, in a perfect kiss or perfect morning jog, in time spent with our families and friends.

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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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"Knowing that I did pass our 10th wedding anniversary and Tom's birthday -- and feeling my way through the maze of grief that you go through during the first year -- I think that it will make those occasions next year a little more open to happiness and joy, knowing that we've experienced them at least once without Tom, " she said.

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