“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.”
As quoted in Chopin.
Variant translation: I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Variant: I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;
Source: Chopin's Letters
“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870)
Variant: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”
“Happiness is a good flow of life.”
As quoted by Stobaeus, ii. 77.
“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”
Variant: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Variant: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/868164986887176192 (26 May 2017)
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
Man's Search for Meaning
Variant: But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
"Forbes" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)
“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”
“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”
Max Müller, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood
Misattributed
“Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.”
See You at the Top (2000)
Where Is Science Going? (1932)
Source: Where is Science Going?
“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”
Source: Germinal
