английские цитаты о счастье

“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.

Zayn Malik (1993) British singer

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
В жизни есть лишь одно счастье – любить и быть любимым.

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.”
Действие не всегда может приносить счастье, но нет счастья без действия.

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”
Ошибок не существует, просто счастливые случайности.

Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.”
Хотел бы я избавиться от мыслей, которые портят мое счастье.

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer

“Success equals achievement and achievements equal to happiness. That's the universal truth.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
Действия не всегда приносят счастье, но не бывает счастья без действия.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

“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.”
Счастье - благое течение жизни.

Zeno of Citium (-334–-263 BC) ancient Greek philosopher

“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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Мы даже не просим счастья, только немного меньше боли.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”

Robert A. Heinlein книга Starship Troopers

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
Нет лекарства, которое способно вылечить то, что может вылечить счастье.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

“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.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
Очень просто быть счастливым, но очень сложно быть простым.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.”

Ariana Grande (1993) American singer-songwriter

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”

Viktor E. Frankl книга Человек в поисках смысла

“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.

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

“You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Счастливые умные люди - редчайшая вещь, которую я знаю.

Ernest Hemingway книга The Garden of Eden

“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.

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“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

“Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead. The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”

Mikhail Lermontov книга A Hero of Our Time

“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”

Tove Jansson книга Moominsummer Madness

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
Счастье существует лишь когда есть принятие.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

“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

“Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.”

Randy Pausch книга The Last Lecture

“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

“Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

“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.

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”

Emile Zola книга Germinal