简单生活,并不意味着是贫苦、简陋的生活、它是经过深思熟虑后,呈现真实自我,过上目标明确的生活,是一种丰富、健康、和谐、悠闲的生活方式…… 这是一部简单生活的指南,编者希望通过每一篇文章,每一段文字,每一个字眼,把简单生活的真谛传递给读者。化繁为简,简单就是美,简单就是福。生活简单才能拥有更多的自由,才不会被生活所奴役。过简单生活,虽然放弃了很多,但你会因舍而得,得到的是健康、快乐与自由。
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这是一部简单生活的指南,编者希望通过每一篇文章,每一段文字,每一个字眼,把简单生活的真谛传递给读者。

**卷 学会生活在此时此刻
Learn to Live in the Present Moment
热爱生活
Love Your Life
工作和娱乐
Work and Pleasure
想想好事情
Try to Remember the Good Things
活出个性
An Identity of One's Own
让自己轻松一刻
Give Yourself a Break
清理心灵空间
Clear Your Mental Space
品味现在
Relish the Moment
学会生活在此时此刻
Learn to Live in the Present Moment
无知常乐
Ignorance Make One Happy
美丽人生
Beauty
做你自己
Do Things for Himself
论闲散
On Idleness
过平静生活的代价是什么
What Is the Price of Personal Peace
充满活力愉快地生活
To Be Full of Energy,joy and Life
阴郁的日子
The Blue Day
感触美丽
Feeling Beauty
喜悦的能力
The Faculty of Delight
我喜欢这种淡淡的感觉
I Like the Subtle Feeling
飘逸而行
Go Easy and Enjoy Yourself in Harmony
就为了今天
Just for Today
想想你所拥有的
Think More about What You Hare
自由飞翔
Free to Soar
彼岸无尽头。知足才常乐
“There”Is No Better Than“Here”

第二卷 别让快乐远离我们
Don't Let Happiness Run Away From Us
自由如歌的快乐
On Pleasure
幸福之道
The Road to Happiness
快乐之门
The Happy Door
做一个乐观者
Be an Optimist
我们对幸福的追求
Our Pursuit of Happiness
别让快乐远离我们
Don’t Let Happiness Run Away From Us
感受快乐
Ten Ways to Happiness
幸福的真谛
The Essence of Happiness
生活的乐趣
The joy of Living
排遣压力,享受生活
12 Ways to Minimize Stress
幸福生活的建议
Good Advice to Help You Live Happily
**能买到幸福吗
Does Money Buy Happiness
我们在享受快乐吗
Are We Having Fun Yet
幸福
Happiness
选择乐观
Choose Optimism
快乐真言
A Simple Truth about Happiness
快乐法则
Five Simple Rules
幸福是一种感觉
Blessed
幸福箴言
On Happmess
请喝杯茶
A Cup ofTea
步行的乐趣
The Pleasure of Walking
幸福就在我们身边
Happiness Is All Around Us
幸福在哪里
Where Is Happiness

第三卷 生活是一所全日制学校
A Fall-time School Called Life
生命的启示
Instructions for Life
感悟生活
Word of Wisdom
生命
Life
人生絮语
Moving Thoughts
平和的心态
A Good Measure of Equanmfity
我的生活真的那么糟吗
Is My Life Real Bad
生活给我上的一课
A Lesson ofLife
体验生活
Expenence Life
草草行事的重要性
The lmportance of Doing Things Badl
做自己情绪的主人
Today I Will be Master ofMy Emofio Is
让内心的灯指引你
Allow Your Own Inner Light to Guide You
保持平静小贴士
Tips for Staying Calm
论宁静的心境
On Peace ofMind
生活是一所全日制学校
A Full-time Sch001 Called Life
一生的收获
Catch of a Lifetime
生活
Life
生活的课堂
A Lesson in Life
人生之道
For Success in Life
和自己交谈的力量
Power of Self-talk
重新定义自己
Redefine Yourself
聆听心灵
Listen to Your Inner Voice
打造自己的生活
How to Build Your Life
生活半对半
The 50-Percent Theory of Lire
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To go on a journey is often worrisome, but so long as one lives he proceeds on hislife's journey. Different people go along differently. Some take hasty steps inanxiety. Obsessed with reaching the next goal in time, they spare no time for sight-seeingalong the way, nor do they have a clear view where their long roads end.Others travelleisurely like tourists. They would take time off now and then for a look at blooming flowersor fallen petals. They would stop to admire clouds gathering and dispersing. Even whenthey go against the wind or are caught in the rain, they never get annoyed, for worries slip offtheir minds as if from an open net.
Cramped is one's workplace. Narrow is one's residence and small is the social circleone moves about——such limitedness in space entail lack of variety which is the source ofsome people' s complaint. But a person is always able to find peace and comfort if he takesthings as they are. Compared with the vastness of the universe it is only a tiny spot one oc-cupies on earth. However, though larger than the ocean is the sky, even larger is the humanmind, for in it imagination would come and go on the wing without limitations.
One may eventually win what he has set his mind to, only to find that he has lost quitea lot. Perhaps what he loses is even better than what he gains.
On one's journey of life some people hurry on with a heavy heart in pursuit of fameand wealth while others go easy and enjoy themselves in harmony with nature.

在浩渺的大千世界中,每个人都仅有一次生存的机会——它是****、不可挽回的。如果你真正意识到了这一点,你就会懂得,人生在世,活出自己的独特个性和渤味是*重要的……
《别让快乐远离我们》
获取真正快乐的首要一步就是减少忧虑——这关键的**步能让我们远离忧虑。它要求我们勇于接受毫无预想的一切,坦然面对生活中的所有烦恼……《我们对幸福的追求》
对我们而言,幸福是复杂多样的,但获得幸福的方式却是相同的。幸福不是发生在我们周围的事,而是我们如何去看待周围发生的事。这是变不利为有利,化挫折为激励的秘诀……《生活是一所全日制学校》 若想拥有平和的心态,就不可存有悲观厌世的心态。过于计较世事的不公,容易自轻自贱,从而发现不了自己的独特之处。因受愤世嫉俗、懊恼烦闷的情绪干扰,你也许会错过许多自己该学的课程……

方雪梅,笔名梅子,出生于江城的书香门弟,自幼喜欢中外文学名著,毕业于武汉大学外国语学院,毕业后走上大学讲坛,现已执教十余载,撰写了为数不少的文学与教育方面的论著,在翻译方面也硕果累累,有合译作品,也有个人专著。