“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.”
As quoted in Happyology by Harald W. Tietze, p. 28
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Denis Diderot106
French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713–1784Related quotes
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery
Variant: The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Source: Up from Slavery
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Oui interview (1979)
Context: The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Source: History of Woman Suffrage, Volumes I-III
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
"History of My Life" Chapter 17
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
"Distichs" in The Poems of Goethe (1853) as translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring
Context: Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth;
Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.