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• I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

  Maeve Binchy

  Expected

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• I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  College, Mind, Faces

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• Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Nice, Thinking

  William Sloane Coffin (1985). “Living the Truth in a World of Illusions”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Bus, Who You Are, Values

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• Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

  Donald Miller

  Dog, Book, Animal

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• Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a living, or lives in a city, or shops in a supermarket, or watches TV, or reads a newspaper, or drives a car, or eats frozen pizzas. A nice life, possibly, with a huge slice of luck and a little spare cash. And maybe even a good life if... Well, let's not go into all that. But rich and beautiful lives seem to be a discontinued line.

  Nick Hornby

  Beautiful, Nice, Cities

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• The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest.
  Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.

  Anne LaBastille

  Reflection, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

  Rod Dreher

  Sex, Party, Men

  Rod Dreher (2010). “Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots”, p.12, Crown

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• I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.

  Joel Osteen

  Jobs, Trying, News

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

  Michael Landon

  Enough

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• You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  America, Saint, Individualism

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

  Emma Forrest

  Perfectly Good, Guilt

  "Blade runner" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.

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• I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

  Ben Whishaw

  Cat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

  Oleg Cassini

  Goal, Life Goal, Pursue

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• He is not great who is not greatly good.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memorable, Greatness

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.333

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• Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

  Alice Munro

  Inspiring, Dream, Inspirational Life

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.252, Vintage

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• Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

  Thales

  Light, All Things, Wisest

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, I, 35, 1925.

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• To be is to be the value of a variable.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Variables, Values

  Journal of Philosophy, 21 Dec. 1939

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• Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

  Thales

  Ruins, Dogma, Precursor

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• To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Children, Creating, Challenges

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• I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Beautiful, Girl, Goodbye

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Military, Hero, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.133, New World Library

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• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational Life, Matter, Life Is

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• There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

  Joel Garreau

  Meaningful, Three, Levels

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.260, Broadway Books

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• Be all you can be and live a good life, have fun with it.

  Tina Yothers

  Fun, Having Fun, Enjoyment

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