“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
Najvznešenejšie umenie je robiť druhých šťastnými
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
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“Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.”
Úsmev neznamená, že je niekto šťastný. Niekedy znamená len to, že ste silní.
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.”
Konanie nemusí vždy priniesť šťastie, ale bez konania nie je šťastie.
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”
Neexistujú žiadne chyby, iba šťastné náhody.
Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.”
Kiež by som mohol odhodiť myšlienky, ktoré otravujú moje šťastie.
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.
Varianta: I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;
Zdroj: Chopin's Letters
“Success equals achievement and achievements equal to happiness. That's the universal truth.”
Víťazstvo sa rovná úspechu a úspech sa rovná šťastiu. To je univerzálna pravda.
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Kto je šťastný, urobí šťastnými aj ostatných.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
Skutky nemusia vždy priniesť šťastie, ale bez skutkov niet šťastia.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870)
Varianta: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”
Neexistuje žiadna cesta k šťastiu. Šťastie je cesta.
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
“Happiness is a good flow of life.”
Šťastie je dobrý prúd života.
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.”
Šťastie je parfém, ktorý nie je možné nastriekať na niekoho bez toho, aby sa trošku z neho dostalo aj na vás.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Varianta: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Varianta: 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.”
Neprosíme o šťastie, len o trochu menej bolesti.
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Varianta: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Zdroj: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Kontext: 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.”
Šťastie spočíva v dostatočnom množstve spánku. Len v tom, v ničom inom.
Robert A. Heinlein kniha Starship Troopers
Zdroj: Starship Troopers
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
Žiadny liek nevylieči to, čo šťastie nedokáže.
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.”
Keď sa zatvoria dvere jedny šťastia, otvoria sa ďalšie; ale často sa pozeráme tak dlho na tie zatvorené dvere, že nevidíme tie, ktoré sa pre nás otvorili.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
We Bereaved (1929)
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
Je veľmi jednoduché byť šťastným, ale je veľmi ťažké byť jednoduchým.
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.”
Hudba je niečo, čo môže zdieľať každý na Zemi. Hudba nás má liečiť, spájať a robiť šťastnými.
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.”
O šťastie nemožno usilovať, musí prísť samo.
Viktor E. Frankl kniha Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning
Varianta: 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.”
Šťastie je zmyslom a účelom života, jeho cieľom a koncom ľudskej existencie.
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
Tajomstvo šťastného manželstva zostáva tajomstvom.
Henny Youngman (1906–1998) American comedian
"Forbes" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000
“You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.”
Ak nie ste šťastní, musíte zmeniť svoj život a zobudiť sa, ak sa veci nevyvíjajú podľa vašich predstáv.
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Šťastie u inteligentných ľudí je tou najzriedkavejšou vecou, s akou som sa kedy stretol.
Ernest Hemingway kniha The Garden of Eden
Marita in Ch. 11
Zdroj: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Schopnosť nájsť krásu v tých najskromnejších veciach robí domov šťastným a život krásnym.
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
Varianta: 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.”
Všetci žijeme s cieľom byť šťastní; naše životy sú rôzne, a predsa rovnaké.
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.”
Šťastní budú tí, ktorí počúvajú slová mŕtvych. Čítajú dobré skutky a dodržiavajú ich príkazy.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”
Šťastní ľudia sú ignoranti a sláva nie je nič iné ako úspech a na jeho dosiahnutie stačí byť len prefíkaný.
Mikhail Lermontov kniha A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)
“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Šťastie je ochota byť šťastným.
James Richardson (1950) American poet
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
Nemôžete sa chrániť pred smútkom bez toho, aby ste sa chránili pred šťastím.
Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist
“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”
Musím sa trochu upokojiť, inak vybuchnem šťastím.
Tove Jansson kniha Moominsummer Madness
Zdroj: Moominsummer Madness
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
Šťastie môže existovať iba v akceptácii.
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.”
Jednou z najlepších vecí, ktoré sa vám v živote môžu prihodiť, je mať šťastné detstvo.
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.”
Pozri, chcem nájsť spôsob ako byť šťastný. A naozaj by som bol rád, ak by som mohol byť šťastný s tebou. Ale ak nemôžem byť šťastný s tebou, tak nájdem spôsob, ako byť šťastný bez teba.
Randy Pausch kniha The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2008)
“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”
Žiadne bremeno nie je pre človeka také ťažké ako sled šťastných dní.
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.”
Šťastie nie je pôžitok - je to víťazstvo.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
See You at the Top (2000)
“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”
Jediní zaujímaví filozofi sú tí, ktorí prestali myslieť a začali hľadať šťastie.
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Tears and Saints (1937)
“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.”
Dôležitá je hodnota, ktorú sme v živote vytvorili, ľudia, ktorých sme urobili šťastnými, a to, koľko sme rástli ako ľudia.
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.”
Nie je to znalosť pravdy, ale úspech, ktorý prichádza s jej hľadaním, čo hľadajúceho obohacuje a prináša mu šťastie.
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Where Is Science Going? (1932)
Zdroj: 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.”
Dieťa môže naučiť dospelého tri veci: byť šťastným bez dôvodu, byť neustále zaneprázdnený niečím a mať schopnosť zo všetkej svojej sily požadovať to, po čom túži.
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”
Ak sa ľudia dokážu mať aspoň trochu radi, môžu byť šťastní.
Emile Zola kniha Germinal
Zdroj: Germinal
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