Aristotle believed happiness was not a feeling but an activity — the active exercise of virtue. His ideas on character, friendship, and the good life remain the foundation of Western ethics.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.