Desire Quote by Epictetus

If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.

— Daniel Gillies

Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good,…

— Barbara Fredrickson

I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences,…

— David Brooks

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good veryinadequate to their aspirations. They do so…

— Lydia M Child

“Life is only meaningless if we fail to make a resolute effort at achieving bliss, attaining the active state of oneness that comes to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable…

— Marcus Aurelius

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

— David Hume

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is…

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do…

— Lydia M. Child

“True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom…

— Susan Wells Bennett