“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
Frasi e Citazioni inglesi sulla felicità
Migliori frasi e citazioni inglesi sulla felicità
“Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.”
Sorridere non significa che qualcuno sia felice. A volte significa solo che sei forte.
Zayn Malik (1993) British singer
“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.
Variante: I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;
Origine: Chopin's Letters
“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
Forse l'azione non porta sempre alla felicità, ma non può esserci felicità senza azione.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870)
Variante: 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
Variante: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Variante: 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
Variante: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Origine: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Contesto: 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.”
La felicità consiste nel dormire abbastanza. Solo questo, niente di più.
Robert A. Heinlein libro Fanteria dello spazio
Origine: Starship Troopers
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
È molto semplice essere felice, ma è molto difficile essere semplice.
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 libro Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning
Variante: 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 libro The Garden of Eden
Marita in Ch. 11
Origine: 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
Variante: 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.”
Viviamo tutti con l'obiettivo di essere felici; le nostre vite sono diverse, eppure uguali.
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 libro Moominsummer Madness
Origine: 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)
Origine: Where is Science Going?
“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”
Emile Zola libro Germinale
Origine: Germinal