Good Life Quotes - Page 3

• There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

  William Barclay

  Inspirational, Life, Happy Birthday

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• If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Fearless, Humanity

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• Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Anxiety, Together

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

  Lytton Strachey

  Writing, Difficult

  Eminent Victorians preface (1918)

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• Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Insperational, Higher

  "Goethe's Art of Living".

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• That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Short Life, Real, Book

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

  Sid Caesar

  Inspirational, Positivity, Goal

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• It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

  Philip Green

  Life, Family, Balance

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• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Looks, Youth

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

  Isak Dinesen

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, World

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• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Success, Three

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.75, Booklassic

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• The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

  Vincent Nichols

  Ambitious

  "'My only ambition is to lead a good life. Full stop'". Interview With Cole Moreton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Thanksgiving, Women, Grateful

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• The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

  Norman Thomas

  Inspirational, Life, Loyalty

  Norman Thomas (1961). “Great Dissenters”

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• Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

  Stephen Colbert

  Life

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• Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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• Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 26, 2016

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• As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Positive, What Matters

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• A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

  Clive James

  Wisdom, America, World

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