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• I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Doe, Helping

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• Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

  Eleanor Antin

  Beautiful, Dark, Garden

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• What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Military, Hero, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.133, New World Library

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• Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

  James C. Collins

  School, Keys, Government

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• There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Men, Enemy, Democracy

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1962). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Tongue, Outrun

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• It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

  Alain de Botton

  Taken, Ideas, Poverty

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• What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

  Aristotle

  Successful, Agreement, Names

  Aristotle, Renford Bambrough (1963). “The philosophy of aristotle, a new selection with an introd. and commentary by Renford Bambrough. New translations by A. E. Wardman and J. L. Creed”

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• I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

  Dave Chappelle

  Quality, Very Good, Quality Of Life

  "Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We're 100% Sure It's Maybe Totally for Real)". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 12, 2014.

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• If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Two, Meditation, Would Be

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.

  John Waters

  Believe, Hands, Amazing Life

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• The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Preparation, Life Is, Bad Times

  "Wherefore Ye Must Press Forward". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 32, 1977.

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• You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

  Saint Augustine

  Sermons 229H:3:2,

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• The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Love, Life, Death

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heart, Virtue, Substitutes

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

  John Garamendi

  Dream, Jobs, Wall

  "House Republicans Continue to Block Commonsense Make It In America Policies" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I'm very thankful for the people that I've had the opportunity to work with. I have a good life. It's been amazing. I'm not complaining. It's not like acting has ruined me so I have to leave. It's not that. I'm just done with it.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Opportunity, People, Acting

  Source: dishmag.com

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• If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Men, America

  Source: www.heavenonearthdocumentary.com

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• I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

  Jon Fishman

  Growing Up, Thinking, Complaining

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• I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

  John Lee Hooker

  Men, Happy Man

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• Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

  Fannie Flagg

  Children, Years, People

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.456, Random House

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• The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.

  Tony Campolo

  Self, Doubt, Environmental

  Tony Campolo (1995). “Carpe Diem: Seize the Day”, Thomas Nelson

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• Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

  Martin Seligman

  Meaningful, Life Is, Pleasant

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

  Kenny Loggins

  Letting Go, Running, Agreement

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• But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.

  Bill McCartney

  Beautiful, Ocean, Godly

  Bill McCartney (1995). “From Ashes to Glory”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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