We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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.
The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
When you have the right habits, okay, certain good things will come to you, and that's what life is about.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.