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• I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Motivational, Witty

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• Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

  Confucius

  Consideration, Bases, Consideration For Others

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• Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Rain, Coffee, Animal

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

  June Jordan

  Running, Hurt, Trying

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.105, Basic Books

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• The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Keys, Priorities

  Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson (2007). “An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given”, Hyperion

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• A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves.

  Eric Greitens

  Meaningful, Strong, Community

  FaceBook post by Eric Greitens from Sep 23, 2015

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• We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

  Georges Duhamel

  Missing You, Memories, Cherish Every Moment

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• Value your words. Each one may be the last.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  May, Lasts, Positive Atheism

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• Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

  John Ratzenberger

  Conquer The World, People, Together

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• The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Signatures, Life Is

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• A good life is a main argument.

  Ben Jonson

  Inspirational Life, Argument, Life Is

  Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

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• You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, War, Value Yourself

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• We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Spring, Creative

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.38, Routledge

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• The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.

  Edwin Markham

  Stars, Brotherhood, Finals

  Edwin Markham, Ben Barr Lindsey, George Creel, Leonore MacKay (1914). “Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation of the Anxious Problem of Child Labor-its Causes, Its Crimes, and Its Cure”

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• The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

  Warren Buffett

  Teacher, Mean, Fighting

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• There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Waiting, Waiting For You

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Aug 09, 2012

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• We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Needs, Obsession, Obsessed

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• I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.

  William Melmoth

  Order, Law, Together

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• We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Want, Handsome, Kind

  "Taraki: 'A New World, A New Man, And A New Society'". Executive Intelligence Review Vol. 5, No. 30, www.larouchepub.com. September 12, 1978.

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• I'm just appreciative of everything that has happened in my life. I'm overwhelmed, sometimes, by this. When I see where I grew up and the places I've been, it puts a smile on my face because of all the people there I can help. I give them food; I give them money; I try to provide them with a good lifestyle, and do the best I can because that's where I came from. Those are my people.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Giving, People, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before.

  Norman Reedus

  Feel Good, Looks, Littles

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

  Chris Pine

  Reality, Creating, Want

  "Just My Luck - Chris Pine interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

  Dominic Cooper

  Country, Iraq, People

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• I like Aurora, Sleeping Beauty, because shes just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

  Ariana Grande

  Cute, Sleep, Fighting

  "We Sent Two of Ariana Grande's Biggest Fans to Interview Her - Come See What Happened!". www.glamour.com. September 5, 2013.

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• do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

  Ann Bridge

  Ideas, Enemy, World

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.18, A&C Black

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