I just want to float to the dining hall after-- " so much easier, so much less painful."

我只想下午时飘去餐厅-,更加容易，更少痛苦“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Because when we see that something is just necessary, we-- it reduces the sting of it.

因为当我们认识到有些事是必然的-,它便感少了我们对它的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Which of these branches that are available to me, the branches of my life story, which is the one in which the future from here on out ?" holds more pleasure and holds less pain?"

我能得到哪些分支，我的人生故事的分支，从这里起步的哪一种未来,有更多快乐更少痛苦“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选