What is happiness for you?
- Lesson for the 10-th form
- Sultanova N.A.
VOCABULARY
- happy - счастливый
- happily - счастливо, удачно, к счастью
- happiness - счастье
- happy event - рождение ребенка
- happy guess – правильная догадка
- as happy as the day is long. – очень счастливый
- happy-go-lucky – беспечный . беззаботный случайный
- as happy as a lark - очень счастливый
You think…
HAPPINESS QUOTATIONS AND PROVERBS
- Read the quotations and translate into Russian. What do you think about it?
George Matthew Adams
If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.
Chinese Proverb
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
English Proverb
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
Coretta Scott King
I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes-the finer things of life-would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
John Ruskin
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it.
Susan B. Anthony
Independence is happiness
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
- Erasmus
I have learnt to seek my happiness in limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
- John Stuart Mill
Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
- Lydia Maria Child
Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.
- J. Petit Senn
Oh, be he king or peasant, he is happiest
Who in his home finds peace.
- Goethe
What is happiness ?
What do you do to be happy?
You Will be Happy
Minimise your wants,
You will be happy.
Fulfill your needs,
You will be happy.
Divinize your thoughts,
You will be happy.
Immortalize your faith,
You will be happy.
Rectify your mistakes,
You will be happy.
Intensify your cry,
You will be happy.
Sources:
- /http://www.srichinmoypoetry.com/selected_poems/poems_happy/
- http://www.paradise-engineering.com/quotation/index. lhtm
