What is the good life?
Not 'what feels good' but what kind of life is worth wanting — flourishing, virtue, love, or presence in the moment.
5 perspectives
Aristotle
Flourishing (eudaimonia) is activity of the soul in accordance with virtue
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
Confucius
Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself
“Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.”
Laozi
The softest things overcome the hardest
Omar Khayyam
The present is the only possession: the rest is memory or guess
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
Seneca
We are not given a short life; we make it short
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”