„I have gradually come to one negative conclusion about the good life. It seems to me that the good life is not any fixed state. It is not, in my estimation, a state of virtue, or contentment, or nirvana, or happiness. It is not a condition in which the individual is adjusted or fulfilled or actualized. To use psychological terms, it is not a state of drive-reduction, or tension-reduction, or homeostasis“

— Carl R. Rogers

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„The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.“
— Carl R. Rogers
„Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.“
— Ayn Rand