Mary Astell Quotes

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

I think the happiness we find, we make.

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.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

I think that the only pure thing we have in life is to try to be happy.

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

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

I think people really want to be happy.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

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.

Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller 'Self-Help.'

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.