Good Life Quotes - Page 4

• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• May you live all the days of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

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• Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

  Daymond John

  People, Effort, Poor

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• But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

  Henry Rollins

  Married, Enjoy

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• Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

  Douglas Horton

  Gratitude, Life Is Good, Thinking

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• The good life is one that's artistically made.

  William Shatner

  Life Is, Made

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• Life loves the liver of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  1977 Interview in Black Scholar, Jan- Feb. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

  Tom Brokaw

  Motivational, Graduation, Education

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• I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, Thinking, Limits

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• Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

  Richard Dawkins

  Guides, Ten Commandments, I Can

  "Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Play, Angry

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.68, Canongate Books

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.

  Ernie Davis

  Happy Life, Years, People

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• I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Happy Life, Government

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

  James Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Hero

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?

  David Bach

  Effort, Choices, Why Not

  David Bach (2018). “Smart Couples Finish Rich, Revised and Updated: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner”, p.101, Currency

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• Be superior to pleasure.

  Cleobulus

  Pleasure, Superiors

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• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

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• When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Over You, Respect Yourself

  FaceBook post by Suze Orman from Aug 24, 2015

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• We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Luxury, Sick

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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