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G. K. Chesterton: "You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime,
G.K.切斯特頓說"你們在餐前感恩，但我聽音樂會和歌劇前，在看戲劇啞劇前"
and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing
"在我打開一本書，畫素描前，畫畫前，游泳前，劍擊前，拳擊前，走路前，玩樂前，跳舞前"
and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
"把鋼筆頭醮進墨水前，都會感恩"
Gratitude produced some... produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man."
"感激能帶來人類感受到的，最為單純的快樂"
Think about it. Think about the last time you are grateful to someone.
大家想想，想想你上次感激別人時
And you expressed that gratitude. How did you feel?
當你向別人表達你的感激時，你有什么感覺？
And how did you make the other person feel?
你使對方有什么感覺？
Or someone who was grateful to you and appreciated you?
或者當別人感激你時？
You were walking on air, created this upward spiral as a result.
你會有一種飄起來的感覺，形成一個良性循環
When it's genuine, when it's real.
前提是這種感激是真誠的
We don't do it enough. We don't do enough appreciation.
我們感激得不夠
We don't express gratitude enough, whether it's to the food that we eat, whether it's to writing, whether it's for our friends or family.
我們的感激之情表達得不夠，不管是對我們吃的食物，還是寫作，不管是對朋友，還是對家人
So this is the most wonderful books written about the power
這是在關于感激的力量方面最好的書
of gratitude — it's not a research book, but a lot of these ideas that I'll talk about in a minute have researched.
這不是一本教材，但我等一下談到的很多觀點，在這本書里都有所研究
"About Gratitude" by Brother David Steindl-Rast. He also has a great website. If you google his name.
Brother David Steindl-Rast寫的《論感激》。他還辦了一個很棒的網站，谷歌他的名字就能查到
How do we cultivate gratitude? His advice is simple and gracious.
我們怎么培養感激？他的建議很簡單優雅
"Why not start by surveying a typical day?
"何不先審視平凡的一天？"
What is it that you tend to tackle with spontaneous mindfulness, so that without effort your whole heart is in it?
有什么事是你不自覺地就會去處理的？有什么事是毫不費力你就會全心投進去的
