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What is happiness
Gregory 2022-03-24 09:02:31
Happiness is actually a relatively abstract thing, and it is difficult to define it. Rather than saying that Hector is looking for happiness, it is better to say that what he is looking for is the self, or the values of one. I remember that a few years ago during the Spring Festival, CCTV did a very stupid thing, that is, the whole street asked "Are you happy?" What is happiness? A more classic reply is Fan Wei's definition of happiness in "Please Praise Me": "Happiness is when I am hungry, and when someone sees a meat bun in their hand, he is happier than me; A thick padded jacket, he is happier than me; I want to go to a thatched hut, just a pit, you squat there, you are happier than me." I think that cherishing everything in life should be happiness.
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Hector and the Search for Happiness quotes
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Hector: 1. Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.
Hector: 2. A lot of people think happiness means being richer or more important.
Hector: 3. Many people only see happiness in their future.
Hector: 4. Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time.
Hector: 5. Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
Hector: 6. Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness.
Hector: 7. Does this person bring you predominantly a. up b. down?
Hector: 8. Happiness is answering your calling.
Hector: 9. Happiness is being loved for who you are.
Hector: 10. Sweet Potato Stew!
Hector: 11. Fear is an impediment to happiness.
Hector: 12. Happiness is feeling completely alive.
Hector: 13. Happiness is knowing how to celebrate.
Hector: 14. Listening is loving.
Hector: 15. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
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[first lines]
Hector: [waking suddenly from a nightmare] Clara!
Clara: Hector... Morning, sweetheart. Time to raise and shine.
Hector: [narrating] One upon a time, there was a young psychiatrist called Hector, who had a very satisfactory life. His world was tidy, uncomplicated. And he liked it that way. He took great comfort in its predictable patterns. Patterns his girl friend Clara was happy to maintain.