„The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.“
Letter (September 1940)
Robert Baden-Powell9
britischer Kavallerie-Offizier und Gründer der Pfadfinderbe… 1857 - 1941Ähnliche Zitate
— Aberjhani author 1957
(p. xiv).
Book Sources, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry (2014)
„I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Quelle: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 91
„What is the worth of any thing,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?“
— Richard Owen Cambridge British poet 1717 - 1802
"Learning: A Dialogue", line 23; in The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge (1803), Miscellaneous Verses, p. 10
— Robert McKee American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters 1941
Quelle: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
— Mozi Chinese political philosopher and religious reformer of the Warring States period -470 - -391 v.Chr
Book 4; Universal Love III
Mozi
„Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.“
— David Sedaris, buch Holidays on Ice
Quelle: Holidays on Ice
„The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.“
— William Beebe American ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, and explorer 1877 - 1962
As quoted in On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz (1963)
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
— George Orwell, buch Down and Out in Paris and London
Quelle: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 17
— George Santayana 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism 1863 - 1952
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
„Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?“
— Leonard Ravenhill British writer 1907 - 1994
Quelle: Final message to the church (n. d.)
— Robert Oppenheimer American theoretical physicist and professor of physics 1904 - 1967
Letter to his brother Frank (14 October 1929), published in Robert Oppenheimer : Letters and Recollections (1995) edited by Alice Kimball Smith, p. 136
Kontext: Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
— Herman Melville, buch Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
Bk. XXV, ch. 3
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)
