Senses – driven life allows us to get a real understanding of the world around. Living purposefully and surrounding ourselves with inspirations to study makes our life good and provides the source for happiness { eudaimonia } |

Born in 384BC in Stagira, the city of Macedonia, surrounded by the parental example of putting science into use to help save lives (his father was a doctor), Aristotle started his love affair with the mother of all wisdom, philosophy, at an early age of 17 where he attended Plato’ school – a place that also marked meeting his future wife, Pythias.

Aristotle, known as a polymath of his times devoted his life to the area of knowledge that guided his curiosity into various areas of life such as psychology, ethics, metaphysics to name a few.

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by Aristotle

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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eudaimonia { Greek: εὐδαιμονία | eudaimonia } – the state of happiness, prosperity, wealth and good health – this simplistic in wording and a rather basic message in real life depends on ambitious thoughts and the standpoint, for some happiness, equals health and security for others it is the ultimate freedom of choice;

Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics, (1095a15–22) talks about eudaimonia in terms of ‘doing and living well’; it is nothing less than performing an action that shall be perceived as ‘good’ if it brings us happiness. A simple example can be seen in healthy leaving that represents a ‘good’ action per definition as it supports well-being and overall health because it provides us with beneficial outcomes which, in the long run, gives us happiness.

Living happily is doing good for oneself and experiencing joy and fortune based on individual experience through the richness of senses { Dr A A Drzewiecka }

With love to quality living x