Good Life Quotes - Page 11

• If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Strong, May, Neighbor

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• Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)

  Stephen Levine

  Attitude, Believe, Good Luck

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• Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

  Thales

  Ruins, Dogma, Precursor

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• The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Acceptance, Dark

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• Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

  Theodor Herzl

  Men, Example, Conditions

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• The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest.
  Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.

  Anne LaBastille

  Reflection, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

  Ben Whishaw

  Cat

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

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• Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

  Alice Munro

  Inspiring, Dream, Inspirational Life

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.252, Vintage

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• Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Children, Learning

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• Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Happiness, Insperational, Loving Life

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• Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Holy, Righteous

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• How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Missionary, Life Is, Repent

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• I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Beautiful, Girl, Goodbye

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To be is to be the value of a variable.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Variables, Values

  Journal of Philosophy, 21 Dec. 1939

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• I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

  Michael Landon

  Enough

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• You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  America, Saint, Individualism

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

  Emma Forrest

  Perfectly Good, Guilt

  "Blade runner" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.

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• He is not great who is not greatly good.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memorable, Greatness

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.333

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• My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

  Oleg Cassini

  Goal, Life Goal, Pursue

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• I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

  Maeve Binchy

  Expected

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• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Brother, Buddhist

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• Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.

  Sam Simon

  Bart Simpson, Thanks

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• I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.

  Kathleen Turner

  Daughter, Mother, Couple

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

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• Be all you can be and live a good life, have fun with it.

  Tina Yothers

  Fun, Having Fun, Enjoyment

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• This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

  David Benioff

  Fighting, Barbarians, Humans

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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