Mary Astell 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 whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

Every person can reach a full life.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

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.

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

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.

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

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.

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.

I'm not maximized yet.

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.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

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.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?