Good Life Quotes - Page 17

• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Grandma, Drinking, Food

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 27, 2013

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• My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going.

  Big Sean

  Mom, Dad, Men

  "Big Sean Talks Def Jam Debut, Detroit Roots, and Working With Kanye & Pharrell". Interview with Modele "Modi" Oyewole, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.

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• Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

  Sara Zarr

  Surprise, Made, Made It

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.208, Hachette UK

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• We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

  Cato the Elder

  Inspirational, Evil, Gossip

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• A good life is a collection of happy memories.

  Denis Waitley

  Sports, Memories, Life Is

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• Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

  Solon

  Waiting, Age, Old Age

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• Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

  Aristippus

  Cheer, Appetite, Hindrance

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• We should seek the greatest value of our action.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Our Actions, Should

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we can move from perfectionism toward optimalism, we never fully leave perfectionism behind and never fully reach optimalism ahead. The optimalism ideal is not a distant shore to be reached but a distant star that guides us and can never be reached. As Carl Rogers pointed out, ‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Stars, Moving, Choices

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• Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.

  Lilian Katz

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• [At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Play, Age, Life Is Like

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• Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

  Richard Branson

  Long, Risk, Causes

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Oct 02, 2012

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• We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

  Paul Bloom

  Gratitude, Kindness, Happy Life

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• The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happy Life, Life Is, Extraordinary

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.144, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

  Iris Murdoch

  Requirements, Life Is, Chiefs

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.112, Penguin

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• You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

  Ian Mckellen

  Believe, Thinking, Want

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• Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Acquisition, Politics

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• Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

  Aristotle

  Men, Order, Cities

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• I think life is simpler than we tend to think. We look for answers and more answers. But there are no answers. Things happen in life, good things and bad. People say, 'Why did it happen to me?' Well, why not? Some people win the lottery, and others die in a car crash. It happens, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe doesn't care what happens to you.

  Nando Parrado

  Thinking, Winning, Car

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• Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

  Richard Blanco

  Art, Answers, Asks

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• If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

  Etty Hillesum

  Confidence, Worry, Succeed

  Etty Hillesum (1983). “An interrupted life: the diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, Lester & Orpen Dennys

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• I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

  Meister Eckhart

  Circles, Wish, Goodness

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• Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Action, Good Work, Goodness

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• When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

  Aristotle

  Self, Community, Needs

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1987, Princeton University Press

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