Nicomachean Ethics Happiness Quotes & Sayings

A word from Jesus changed everything. — Henry T. Blackaby

The only limit to what you can achieve is the limit you set for yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man — Khalil Gibran

You think they let you have sex in the old people's home?" Lucille asked Callie. "Because I'd really miss it. — Jill Shalvis

Like anyone else who harbors precious secrets wrought from years of searching, I have longed for someone to tell. — Hope Jahren

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things. — Aristotle.

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson

I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events. — James Heckman

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue — Aristotle.

Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don't you think? — Stephen King

I've been in a lot of cult movies, but I've been very fortunate to have been involved in projects that people remember. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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

I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions. — Ann Turner

It wasn't that I did not believe in ghosts; it was that I believed in them in the same noncommittal way that I believed in giant squids or lucky coins or Belgium. They were things that probably existed, but I had never given any occasion to really care one way or another. — William Ritter

But happiness is a difficult thing-it is, as Aristotle posited in The Nicomachean Ethics, an activity, is is about good social behavior, about being a solid citizen. Happiness is about community, intimacy, relationships, rootedness, closeness, family, stability, a sense of place, a feeling of love. And in this country, where people move from state to state and city to city so much, where rootlessness is almost a virtue ("anywhere I hang my hat ... is someone else's home"), where family units regularly implode and leave behind fragments of divorce, where the long loneliness of life finds its antidote not in a hardy, ancient culture (as it would in Europe), not in some blood-deep tribal rites (as it would in the few still-hale Third World nations), but in our vast repository of pop culture, of consumer goods, of cotton candy for all-in this America, happiness is hard. — Elizabeth Wurtzel