Quotes About Fulfillment

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.

The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up.

Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness

good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

There is one end we all have – not in virtue of being rational, but simply in virtue of being human being – and that is happiness.

As for the life of money-making, it is one of constraint, and wealth manifestly is not the good we are seeking, because it is for use, that is, for the sake of something further:

W]here there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them...

Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.

The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.

Happiness also requires external goods in addition.

If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to suppose that this is how happiness is won.

Het geluk behoort toe aan de tevredenen

Happiness requires both complete goodness and a complete lifetime.

And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat; and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!

Whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.

The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.

If there are several virtues the best and most complete or perfect of them will be the happiest one. An excellent human will be a person good at living life, living well and 'beautifully'.

É belo morrer antes de se fazer algo digno da morte. - Anaxândrias

This is the main question, with what activity one's leisure is filled.