“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
Самое благородное искусство — это делать людей счастливыми.
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“Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.”
Улыбка не всегда значит, что человек счастлив, иногда это значит, что человек сильный.
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
В жизни есть лишь одно счастье – любить и быть любимым.
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
Действие не всегда может приносить счастье, но нет счастья без действия.
“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”
Ошибок не существует, просто счастливые случайности.
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.”
Хотел бы я избавиться от мыслей, которые портят мое счастье.
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.
Вариант: I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;
Источник: Chopin's Letters
“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
Действия не всегда приносят счастье, но не бывает счастья без действия.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870)
Вариант: 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.”
Счастье - благое течение жизни.
As quoted by Stobaeus, ii. 77.
“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”
Счастье - это духи, которые вы не можете излить на других, не нанеся себе
Вариант: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Вариант: 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.”
Мы даже не просим счастья, только немного меньше боли.
Вариант: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Источник: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Контексте: 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.”
Источник: Starship Troopers
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
Нет лекарства, которое способно вылечить то, что может вылечить счастье.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Когда одна дверь счастья закрывается, открывается другая; но мы часто не замечаем её, уставившись взглядом в закрытую дверь.
We Bereaved (1929)
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
Очень просто быть счастливым, но очень сложно быть простым.
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
Вариант: 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.”
Счастье есть смысл и назначение жизни, единственная цель человеческого существования.
“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.”
Счастливые умные люди - редчайшая вещь, которую я знаю.
Marita in Ch. 11
Источник: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Дар видеть красоту в самых обычных вещах приносит в дом счастье и делает жизнь прекрасной.
Вариант: 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
“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”
Источник: Moominsummer Madness
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
Счастье существует лишь когда есть принятие.
“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)
Источник: Where is Science Going?
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
Ребенок может научить взрослого трем вещам: радоваться без всякой причины, всегда находить себе занятие и настаивать на своем.
“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”
Источник: Germinal