Good Life Quotes - Page 25

• One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Believe, Writing, Afterlife

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you. And so I don't know. I know there is condemnation, but I don't feel that's my place.

  Joel Osteen

  Matter, Condemnation, Feels

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

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• In France, it's just.., if you're the son of someone, you can be sure that you will have a good life. Because you're the son of this guy or the daughter of that guy you will be introduced to this person who will give you a job even if you're totally incompetent.

  Gaspar Noe

  Daughter, Jobs, Son

  "Living Is a Selfish Act: An Interview with Gaspar Noe". "Post Script" Interview with Mitch Davis, June 22, 2002.

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• We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.

  Barack Obama

  Children, People, Greek

  "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Son, Fundraising, Volunteer

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• So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Inspiring, Memories

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.33, American Foundation for the Blind

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• You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

  Bill Ayers

  Life, Needs, Way To Live

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• He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

  William Hazlitt

  Success, Character, Acceptance

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1334, Delphi Classics

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• The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

  John Mortimer

  Children, Work, Parenting

  "Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged" by L.M. Boyd, www.sfgate.com. May 13, 1995.

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• Know thy opportunity.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Opportunity, Knows

  As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 79,

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• Measure a person by what they do with power.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Persons

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• Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

  Solon

  Firsts, Submit

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by C. D. Yonge, ("Solon"), sect. 12, (p. 29), 1853.

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• Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

  Solon

  Wish, Desire, Wealth

  "Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, translation by Bernadotte Perrin, "Solon", 2013.

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• Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

  Peter O'Toole

  Afterlife, Long, Actors

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• The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

  Jeremy Luke

  Price Tag, The End Of The Day, Definitions

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• In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

  Bill Watterson

  Culture, Excess, Eccentric

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

  Timothy Keller

  Logic, Tradition

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• I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us.

  Suzanne Somers

  Son, Two, Saws

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• I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore.

  Liza Minnelli

  Thinking, Rocks

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

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• Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Agreement, Art Is

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  It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

  John Waters

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.

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• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, Inspiring, Famous Inspirational

  Hans Henrik Jacobsen, Hans Christian Andersen (1969). “A visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen”

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• So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Inspiring, Encouragement

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Happiness, Depression

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• To add value to others, one must first value others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Add

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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