Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

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.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

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've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

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.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.