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It was a freezing day, a few years ago, when I stumbled upon a wallet in the street There was no identification inside Just three dollars, and a crumpled letter that looked as if it had been carried around for years

The only thing legible on the torn envelope was the return address I opened the letter and saw that it had been written in 1924 — almost 60 years ago I read it carefully, hoping to find some clue to the identity of the wallet's owner

It was a "Dear John" letter The writer, in a delicate script, told the recipient, whose name was Michael, that her mother forbade her to see him again Nevertheless, she would always love him It was signed Hannah

It was a beautiful letter But there was no way, beyond the name Michael, to identify the owner Perhaps if I called information the operator could find the phone number for the address shown on the envelope

"Operator, this is an unusual request I'm trying to find the owner of a wallet I found Is there any way you could tell me the phone number for an address that was on a letter in the wallet" The operator gave me her supervisor, who said there was a phone listed at the address, but that she could not give me the number However, she would call and explain the situation Then, if the party wanted to talk, she would connect me I waited a minute and she came back on the line "I have a woman who will speak with you"

I asked the woman if she knew a Hannah

"Oh, of course! We bought this house from Hannah's family thirty years ago"

"Would you know where they could be located now" I asked

"Hannah had to place her mother in a nursing home years ago Maybe the home could help you track down the daughter"

The woman gave me the name of the nursing home I called and found out that Hannah's mother had died The woman I spoke with gave me an address where she thought Hannah could be reached I phoned The woman who answered explained that Hannah herself was now living in a nursing home She gave me the number I called and was told, "Yes, Hannah is with us" I asked if I could stop by to see her It was almost 10 pm The director said Hannah might be asleep "But if you want to take a chance, maybe she's in the day room watching television" The director and a guard greeted me at the door of the nursing home We went up to the third floor and saw the nurse, who told us that Hannah was indeed watching TV

We entered the day room Hannah was a sweet, silver-haired old-timer with a warm smile and friendly eyes I told her about finding the wallet and showed her the letter The second she saw it, she took a deep breath "Young man," she said, "this letter was the last contact I had with Michael" She looked away for a moment, then said pensively, "I loved him very much But I was only sixteen and my mother felt I was too young He was so handsome You know, like Sean Connery, the actor"

We both laughed The director then left us alone "Yes, Michael Goldstein was his name If you find him, tell him I still think of him often I never did marry," she said, smiling through tears that welled up in her eyes "I guess no one ever matched up to Michael"

I thanked Hannah, said good-bye and took the elevator to the first floor As I stood at the door, the guard asked, "Was the old lady able to help you"

I told him she had given me a lead "At least I have a last name But I probably won't pursue it further for a while" I explained that I had spent almost the whole day trying to find the wallet's ownerWhile we talked, I pulled out the brown-leather case with its red-lanyard lacing and showed it to the guard He looked at it closely and said, "Hey, I'd know that anywhere That's Mr Goldstein's He's always losing it I found it in the hall at least three times"

"Who's Mr Goldstein" I asked "He's one of the old-timers on the eighth floor That's Mike Goldstein's wallet, for sure He goes out for a walk quite often"

I thanked the guard and ran back to the director's office to tell him what the guard had said He accompanied me to the eighth floor I prayed that Mr Goldstein would be up

"I think he's still in the day room," the nurse said "He likes to read at nighta darling old man"

We went to the only room that had lights on, and there was a man reading a book The director asked him if he had lost his wallet Michael Goldstein looked up, felt his back pocket and then said, "Goodness, it is missing"

"This kind gentleman found a wallet Could it be yours"

The second he saw it, he smiled with relief "Yes," he said, "that's it Must have dropped it this afternoon I want to give you a reward"

"Oh, no thank you," I said "But I have to tell you something I read the letter in the hope of finding out who owned the wallet"

The smile on his face disappeared "You read that letter"

"Not only did I read it, I think I know where Hannah is"

He grew pale "Hannah You know where she is How is she Is she still as pretty as she was" I hesitated

"Please tell me!" Michael urged

"She's fine, and just as pretty as when you knew her"

"Could you tell me where she is I want to call her tomorrow"

He grabbed my hand and said, "You know something When that letter came, my life ended I never married I guess I've always loved her"

"Michael," I said "Come with me" The three of us took the elevator to the third floor We walked toward the day room where Hannah was sitting, still watching TV The director went over to her

"Hannah," he said softly "Do you know this man" Michael and I stood waiting in the doorway

She adjusted her glasses, looked for a moment, but didn't say a word

"Hannah, it's Michael Michael Goldstein Do you remember"

"Michael Michael It's you!"

He walked slowly to her side She stood and they embraced Then the two of them sat on a couch, held hands and started to talk The director and I walked out, both of us crying

"See how the good Lord works," I said philosophically "If it's meant to be It will be" Three weeks later, I got a call from the director who asked, "Can you break away on Sunday to attend a wedding" He didn't wait for an answer "Yup, Michael and Hannah are going to tie the knot!"

It was a lovely wedding, with all the people at the nursing home joining in the celebration Hannah wore a beige dress and looked beautiful Michael wore a dark blue suit and stood tall The home gave them their own room, and if you ever wanted to see a 76-year-old bride and a 78-year old groom acting like two teen-agers, you had to see this couple

A perfect ending for a love affair that had lasted nearly 60 years

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How to Be Happy - Why Happiness and Sadness

By Remi Cartier

The 2 concepts are opposite though complimentary As strange as it can be, there would not be happiness without sadness or misery

Life is a question of balance, nature is a question of balance, and as part of this universe we need to conform to those most elementary rules

Take the example of magnets They need to be a polarity for that physical property to exist The same apply to many concepts in life

It doesn't have to be physical properties, but there must be a balance

When people think: "Ah it would be so cool if everybody was equal" It would not work! There need to be some motion, man cannot stand stillness

(At least in their whole lifetime)Usually after a certain age people are eager to stabilize, but before they would feel the need to move,

In any directions, but to move It is like silence Some people think that silence is death, in the same way stillness is death

The thing is that it is becoming truer and truer With manual labors, you could hone your skill till you were the best

There was a physical limit to the speed you could move With our mind-oriented society, the boundaries are expanded a lot!

For example, our eyes usually read at a speed of 300 words per minute, but our brain can read/understand more than 30000 words per minute!

The brain is so powerful that a person who really wants to succeed will basically have to learn everyday to reach a sufficient level of knowledge

Most people thing that because they are not more in schools they don't have to learn anymore That is a very big mistake! You will never succeed if you think like that You will stay average and have an average life Happiness also comes from satisfaction, achievements If you stay 40 years in the same company doing the same job, you won't get that feeling, and in that situation reaching a happy state will be harder You will simply be bored, and basically wait for your death A friend of mine used this sentence to describe this situation

"People walk carefully to their death"

Finally we have that polarity between people: leaders, people who want to succeed, who will work to it and followers, people who don't want to take decision and live an average peaceful life

Ask all those achievers how they feel Few will tell you they want to commit suicide!

On the other hand ask an average guy what he thinks about his life Many will tell you they have so many things left to do, and will probably never be able to do them!

As a last word, I would say: Stay in motion it is far easier to move when you are already moving! Motion will bring achievements, and achievements will bring happiness!

Man cannot stay in a positive state forever This would become his normal state, and wouldn't feel happy anymore

You have 2 options Either you move forward, and search greater happiness to enhance your general level, or you move backward, or totally fall Falling is far faster that going backward It can kill you, or it can re-create that feeling, that need of accomplishment starting in a difficult context Life is a game; better know the rules to enjoy your life at maximum!

Happiness and Sadness Spread Just Like Disease

There may be a literal truth underlying the common-sense intuition that happiness and sadness are contagious

A new study on the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological models of disease

Earlier studies raised the possibility, but had not mapped social networks against actual disease models

“This is the first time this contagion has been measured in the way we think about traditional infectious disease,” said biophysicist Alison Hill of Harvard University

Data in the research, in the July 7 Proceedings of the Royal Society, comes from the Framingham Heart Study, a one-of-a-kind project which since 1948 has regularly collected social and medical information from thousands of people in Framingham, Massachusetts

Earlier analyses found that a variety of habits and feelings, including obesity, loneliness, smoking and happiness appear to be contagious

In the current study, Hill’s team compared patterns of relationships and emotions measured in the study to those generated by a model designed to track SARS, foot-and-mouth disease and other traditional contagions They discounted spontaneous or immediately shared emotion — friends or relatives undergoing a common experience — and focused on emotional changes that followed changes in others

In the spread of happiness, the researchers found clusters of “infected” and “uninfected” people, a pattern considered a “hallmark of the infectious process,” said Hill “For happiness, clustering is what you expect from contagion rates Whereas for sadness, the clusters were much larger than we’d expect Something else is going on”

Happiness proved less social than sadness Each happy friend increased an individual’s chances of personal happiness by 11 percent, while just one sad friend was needed to double an individual’s chance of becoming unhappy

Patterns fit disease models in another way “The more friends with flu that you have, the more likely you are to get it But once you have the flu, how long it takes you to get better doesn’t depend on your contacts The same thing is true of happiness and sadness,” said David Rand, an evolutionary dynamics researcher at Harvard “It fits with the infectious disease framework”

The findings still aren’t conclusive proof of contagion, but they provide parameters of transmission rates and network dynamics that will guide predictions tested against future Framingham results, said Hill and Rand And whereas the Framingham study wasn’t originally designed with emotional information in mind, future studies tailored to test network contagion should provide more sophisticated information

Both Hill and Rand warned that the findings illustrate broad, possible dynamics, and are not intended to guide personal decisions, such as withdrawing from friends who are having a hard time

“The better solution is to make your sad friends happy,” said Rand

Quotations By Category: 'Happiness / Sadness'

A joke is a very serious thing

Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so

John Stuart Mill

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained

John Powell

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing

Clive James

Happiness is good health and a bad memory

Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are

Henry Van Dyke

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have

Rabbi H Schachtel , The Real Enjoyment of Living

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience

George Santayana (1863-1952)

He who laughs last didn't get it

Helen Giangregorio

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news

Bertolt Brecht

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke

Terry Cohen

He who laughs last thinks slowest

Seen on a bumper sticker

He who laughs, lasts

Mary Pettibone Poole

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Virginia Woolf

If you want anything done well, do it yourself This is why most people laugh at their own jokes

Bob Edwards

In the end, everything is a gag

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

Laugh and the world laughs with you Snore and you sleep alone

Anthony Burgess

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people

Victor Borge

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at

Lyn Karol

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Now is the time for all good men to come to

Walt Kelly

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination

Roy Goodman

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time

Sir J Lubbock

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny

Gloria Vanderbilt

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit

W Somerset Maugham

The gods too are fond of a joke

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Please let me believe, you,I only hope one thing that is to show you my heart, and all emotion from the spirit inside my heart

Of Love 论爱情 The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury

舞台上的爱情生活比生活中的爱情要美好得多。因为在舞台上，爱情只是喜剧和悲剧的素材，而在人生中，爱情却常常招来不幸。它有时象那位诱惑人的魔女(1)，有时又象那位复仇的女神(2)。

You may observe, that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent) there is not one, that hath been transported to the mad degree of love: which shows that great spirits, and great business, do keep out this weak passion You must except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half partner of the empire of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawgiver; whereof the former was indeed a voluptuous man, and inordinate; but the latter was an austere and wise man: and therefore it seems (though rarely) that love can find entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept

你可以看到，一切真正伟大的人物（无论是古人、今人，只要是其英名永铭于人类记忆中的），没有一个是因爱情而发狂的人。因为伟大的事业只有罗马的安东尼和克劳底亚是例外(3)。前者本性就好色荒*，然而后者却是严肃多谋的人。这说明爱情不仅会占领开旷坦阔的胸怀，有时也能闯入壁垒森严的心灵----假如手御不严的话。

It is a poor saying of Epicurus, Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus; as if man, made for the contemplation of heaven, and all noble objects, should do nothing but kneel before a little idol, and make himself a subject, though not of the mouth (as beasts are), yet of the eye; which was given him for higher purposes

埃辟克拉斯(4)曾说过一句笨话：“人生不过是一座大戏台。”似乎本应努力追求高尚事业的人类，却只应象玩偶般地逢场作戏。虽然爱情的奴隶并不同于那班只顾吃喝的禽兽，但毕竟也只是眼目色相的奴隶，而上帝赐人以眼睛本来是有更高尚的用途的。

It is a strange thing, to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature, and value of things, by this; that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole, is comely in nothing but in love Neither is it merely in the phrase; for whereas it hath been well said, that the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self; certainly the lover is more For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise Neither doth this weakness appear to others only, and not to the party loved; but to the loved most of all, except the love be reciproque For it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt

过度的爱情追求，必然会降低人本身的价值。例如，只有在爱情中，才总是需要那种浮夸陷媚的词令。而在其他场合，同样的词令只能招人耻笑。古人有一句名言： “最大的奉承，人总是留给自己的。”----只有对情人的奉承要算例外。因为甚至最骄傲的人，也甘愿在情人面前自轻自贱。所以古人说得好：“就是神在爱情中也难保持聪明。”情人的这种弱点不仅在外人眼中是明显的，就是在被追求者的眼中也会很明显----除非她（他）也在追求他（她）。所以，爱情的代价就是如此，不能得到回爱，就会得到一种深藏于心的轻蔑，这是一条永真的定律。

By how much the more, men ought to beware of this passion, which loseth not only other things, but itself! As for the other losses, the poet's relation doth well figure them: that he that preferred Helena, quitted the gifts of Juno and Pallas For whosoever esteemeth too much of amorous affection, quitteth both riches and wisdom

由此可见，人们应当十分警惕这种感情。因为它不但会使人丧失其他，而且可以使人丧失自己本身。甚至其他方面的损失，古诗人早告诉我们，那追求海伦的人，是放弃了财富和智慧的(5)。

This passion hath his floods, in very times of weakness; which are great prosperity, and great adversity; though this latter hath been less observed: both which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly They do best, who if they cannot but admit love, yet make it keep quarters; and sever it wholly from their serious affairs, and actions, of life; for if it check once with business, it troubleth men's fortunes, and maketh men, that they can no ways be true to their own ends

由此可见，人们应当十分警惕这种感情。因为它不但会使人丧失其他，而且可以使人丧失自己本身。甚至其他方面的损失，古诗人早告诉我们，那追求海伦的人，是放弃了财富和智慧的(5)。

I know not how, but martial men are given to love: I think, it is but as they are given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures

我不懂是什么缘故，使许多军人更容易堕入情网，也许这正象他们嗜爱饮酒一样，是因为危险的生活更需要欢乐的补偿。

There is in man's nature, a secret inclination and motion, towards love of others, which if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometime in friars

人心中可能普遍具有一种博爱倾向，若不集中于某个专一的对象身上，就必然施之于更广泛的大众，使他成为仁善的人，象有的僧侣那样。

Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it

夫妻的爱，使人类繁衍。朋友的爱，给人以帮助。但那荒*纵欲的爱，却只会使人堕落毁灭啊！ 希望帮到你,望采纳!