There's in those images, I think, a kind of utopian promise that the familiar, ordinary pleasures of rural life can be recaptured in a new society of plenty.

在这些图片中，我认为有一种乌托邦的希望,对乡村生活熟悉而平凡的快乐的希望,能在一个自足的新社会里重新得到快乐的希望。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I was only myself, Sal Paradise, sad, strolling in this violet dark, this unbearably sweet night wishing I could exchange worlds with the happy, true-hearted, ecstatic Negroes of America.

引-我只是我，萨尔·佩拉提斯，无精打采地徘徊在这个，温柔的难以忍受的夜晚，多希望自己能够变成,一个快乐，真诚，热情奔放的美国黑人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now I am happier today than I was fifteen years ago when I started. I hope to be happier 15 years from today than I am today.

现在的我比15年前的我更快乐,我希望15年后的我,比今天的我更快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The next day in class, I used that and I said to the students, "You know, the last thing in the world that I want you to think is that I experience a constant high or that you, by the end of the semester or the year-- it was a year course, you-- by the end of the year-- " will experience a constant high."

第二天上课时，我讲了这件事并对学生说，“我最不希望你们以为,我总是保持快乐，或者你们，在期未或学年未-,那门课程要讲一年，你们到学年未时-,会一直保持快乐“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选