Dutch English Dictionary

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geluk in English:

1. luck luck


Good luck.
His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business.
Luck comes to those who look for it.
Through his own efforts and a bit of luck, he won first prize in the contest.
Selena Gomez and the Scene also had good luck with their first album, "Kiss and Tell." It has sold more than a million copies around the world.
His luck has changed, he is going to the dogs, but no one even lifts a finger to help him.
Men must not dress in black and white clothes because it is said that this brings bad luck.
Everything I accomplished came from hard work. All bad things that happen to me are due to bad luck. All things you accomplish come from good luck. All bad things that happen to you are due to your lack of work ethic.
As good luck would have it, a steamer passed by and they were saved.
He had his girlfriend blow on the dice for luck before he threw them.
Oh luck! Like the moon, you steadily change, you always grow and then wither again.
Even if your sentences were actually senseless, you at least have the luck to be able to form beautiful sentences.
Buy a lottery ticket or something? "Well, I don't think I've got much luck with gambling."
If it hadn't been for Lindbergh's luck and his knowledge of flying, he could never have succeeded in crossing the Atlantic.
If I considered the possibility of catching the flu every time I kiss a girl I don't know, I'd have no luck with the ladies at all.

English word "geluk"(luck) occurs in sets:

6.3 FOOD FOR THOUGHT

2. happiness happiness


We seek happiness.
Let us go together. We can swim across the river, carry off the bear cubs, take them to the house on the mountain, and together find happiness.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of people have made their friends very miserable.
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
At The Happiness Institute in Australia, a couple of hundred dollars may do the trick.
In the second place, if we do not go, someone else will read the inscription on the stone and find happiness, and we shall have lost it all.
If Buddhism is attractive, it is because it appears as a possibility of touching the infinite and obtaining happiness without having any concrete religious obligations. A spiritual auto-eroticism of some sort.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
While most of us are significantly better off financially than our parents and grandparents, happiness levels haven't changed to reflect that.
Studies show that once the basic needs of shelter and food are met, additional wealth adds very little to happiness.
In nostalgic moments we may tend to think of childhood as a time of almost unbroken happiness.
When Chokichi thought listlessly about this winter, and the similar winter before and the one before that, he vividly experienced the fact that as people grow older, they gradually lose their happiness.

English word "geluk"(happiness) occurs in sets:

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