Eudaimonic Happiness Quotes & Sayings

Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!' — Jack O'Brien

At a time like this with damage and disorder everywhere, no tale is too absurd to be believed and even decent people seek something on which to vent their anger. — Madeleine Brent

The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame — Walt Frazier

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. — Sam Abell

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. — Glenn Greenwald

perhaps it's philosophy that best explains why savoring responsibility leads to fulfillment. The model of happiness perpetuated by the cultural juggernauts of Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and Disneyesque fairy tales of everyday effervescence, broad-smiled contentedness, and perfect relationships is a historically anomalous, and for most, unachievable state. In contrast, we shall return to eudaimonia, the classical Greek concept of happiness that essentially means the "flourishing" or "rich" life. With their devotion to training, meticulousness, and desire for quiet power and accountability, Invisibles understand the value of a life not necessarily of the moment-to-moment happiness that many mistakenly strive for, but of an overall richness of experience, a life grounded in eudaimonic values. — David Zweig

I'd love to fly, especially with the gas prices right now. — Joel Gretsch

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake. — Leon Panetta

There's something I've noticed, sir,' he said, 'ever since we joined up with you in Spain.'
'What's that?'
'That we're always outnumbered and surrounded.'
Sharpe had been listening, not to Harper, but to the day itself. 'Notice anything?' he asked.
'That we're surrounded and outnumbered, sir? — Bernard Cornwell

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty. — Jose Bergamin

Choosing whether or not to insert a comma is the same as choosing whether or not to buy a house. — Chloe Thurlow

Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions. — Rosalind Wiseman