Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The fact that I do so many things, it really nurtures me.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.

I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.

Every person can reach a full life.

Most people would say the meaning of life is to make the world a little more beautiful, or nicer, or more interesting. But how? These days, our main answer to that is: through work.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.