Good Life Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.

  Neil Peart

  Jesus, Trying, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Soul, May

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• I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Blood, Sweat, Politics

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• The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.

  Kate Bush

  Sex, Thinking, Blood

  Song: Symphony In Blue, Album: Lionheart, 1978

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• I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

  David Coverdale

  Careers, Decision, Made

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• I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.

  Kristin Lehman

  Strong, Moving, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

  Huey Lewis

  Needs, Records, Tables

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• I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Lying, Believe

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• A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

  Keith Urban

  Song, Life Changing, Thinking

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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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• And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Elude Us, Water, Goal

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• Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Heaven, Lost Everything

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• While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.

  Lewis Mumford

  Garden, Expression, Ideas

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• I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dream, Dad, Believe

  Source: time.com

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• The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Memories, Home

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