“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
English quotes happiness
Best english quotes happiness
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”
Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.”
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
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.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
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.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
“Happiness is a good flow of life.”
Zeno of Citium (-334–-263 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
As quoted by Stobaeus, ii. 77.
“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
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.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
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.
“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers
Source: Starship Troopers
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Ariana Grande (1993) American singer-songwriter
Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/868164986887176192 (26 May 2017)
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning
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.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
Henny Youngman (1906–1998) American comedian
"Forbes" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
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.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
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.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”
Tove Jansson book Moominsummer Madness
Source: Moominsummer Madness
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
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.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
See You at the Top (2000)
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Where Is Science Going? (1932)
Source: Where is Science Going?
