Good Life Quotes - Page 14

• Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

  Tim Kimmel

  Jail, May, Hell

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• Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Life Is, Imagine

  "We Live in an Era of Zombie Politics". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.alternet.org. November 22, 2013.

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• And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Beautiful, Country, Home

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• I enjoy the hunt much more than the “good life” after the victory.

  Carl Icahn

  Victory, Enjoy, Hunts

  "Icahn on Icahn". Reuters Interview, www.breakingviews.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Reflection, Done, World

  "Working class heroes" by Shirley Dent, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Vision, Matter

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.

  Lance Armstrong

  Life, Thinking, Space

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• It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

  John Green

  Real, Grace, Hazel Grace

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.798, Penguin

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• But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

  Sarah Vowell

  Wine, Lunch, California

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• Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Such visions and hope and faith are not a part of science.

  Arthur Compton

  Life, Lying, Real

  "The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton".

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• It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Vanity, Long

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• If workers are overworked, or companies hire temps at low wages, this fundamentally comes down to the quality of life for a person. It's bigger than wages. They should be able to spend time with their families. And if they're single, they should be able to have fun and not spend every day of their life working 12 to 15 hours a day and never get a chance to take care of their well-being. To me, that's part of living a good life.

  Nina Turner

  Fun, Quality, Wages

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

  Erica Jong

  Love, Song, Growing Up

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

  Rebecca West

  Fiction, Biographies, Study

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• This is really just a rental home for me here on earth, my true home is up in Heaven, and my hope lies in that. I'm here to live a good life and get as many people as I can to go to Heaven with me

  Scotty McCreery

  Lying, Home, People

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• It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.

  Ellen Page

  Crush, Hate, Here I Am

  "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

  Felicity Kendal

  Thinking, Fans, Letters

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• Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where spirituality really lost its way. When it became a stick to beat people with. ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.’ You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Nice, Believe

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• Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban setting which is nothing like when I was growing up and would be able to play barefoot in the street. But we have a very good life.

  Shakira

  Country, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and live the good life." King's dream was fundamentally Christian. His commitment to radical love had everything to do with his commitment to Jesus of Nazareth, and his dream had everything to do with community, with a "we" consciousness that included poor and working people around the world, not just black people.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Dream, Jesus

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It's a dream where you live a life that's powerful, one in which you can get married if you want to, raise kids if you want to, get educated to the limit of your capacity, and do what makes you happy, because we all are looking for the good life. We don't want to go through life with just fighting, fighting, fighting.

  Daniel Inouye

  Dream, Powerful, Kids

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.

  Terry Crews

  Running, Football, Fun

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I was never pop-music taken seriously when I was taught. But some people who agree with you will like your music, and some who don't agree with you will like your music. I think that if you can approach things in a universal fashion and speak rationally about things, then most people do have similar intrinsic values. They don't - or at least they feel that they shouldn't - want other people to suffer. They want a good life for them and their own.

  Nellie McKay

  Fashion, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Self, People, Trying

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.

  Temple Grandin

  Giving, Beef, Needs

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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