Good Life Quotes - Page 8

• Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

  Chilon of Sparta

  House, Wells

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• I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

  Barbara Park

  Hate, Nudge Nudge, Office

  "Galley Girl Catches Up With Barbara Park". Interview With Galley Girl, content.time.com. October 20, 2005.

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• In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dream, Kings, Queens

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1279, Penguin UK

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• The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred.

  Martin Seligman

  Meaningful, Signatures, Doe

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.224, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. 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... To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Creating, Achievement

  "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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• Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

  James C. Collins

  Life And Love, People, Looks

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• I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Pain, Grief, Knowing

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.367, Penguin

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• Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Selfish, Mean

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently.

  Connie Britton

  Exercise, Thinking, Healthy

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

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• Hope is the poor man's bread.

  George Herbert

  Life, Hope, Food

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• Forgiveness is better than revenge.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Forgiving

  As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius in "Life of Pittacus", i. 76,

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• You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Good Morning, Good Day, Goal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But is it what we love, or how we love,
  That makes true good?

  George Eliot

  Life

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6238, Delphi Classics

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• Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Affection, Bases

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.362, 谷月社

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• I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Hate, Order

  "The Devil and the Good Lord" by Jean-Paul Sartre, (Act 11, sc. 2), 1951.

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• We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Prayer, Children

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.90, tredition

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• However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Meaningful, Business, Emotional

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.20, Penguin

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• I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Change, Life Changing, Giving

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• Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

  Charles Simmons

  Life, Men, Noble

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• Success is not a destination, it's a journey.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Journey

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 26, 2014

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• You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

  Stella McCartney

  Hate, Sadness, Share

  Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Fate, Matter

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.63, Bottom of the Hill

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• Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

  Julian Baggini

  Notion, Wellbeing, Values

  "Can happiness be measured?". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

  Alain de Botton

  Views, Skills, Differences

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• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Evil, Worry

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