Good Life Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.

  Trip Lee

  Want, Way, Life Is

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.

  George Allen

  Dog, Horse, Thinking

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

  Tina Yothers

  Fun, Having Fun, Enjoyment

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• I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.

  Kathleen Turner

  Daughter, Mother, Couple

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

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• Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

  Theodor Herzl

  Men, Example, Conditions

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• There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Men, Enemy, Democracy

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1962). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

  Eleanor Antin

  Beautiful, Dark, Garden

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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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• When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Morning, Life Is Good

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• A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.

  Luther Burbank

  Believe, Ideas, Survival

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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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