Good Life Quotes - Page 19

• In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

  Solon

  Life, Friendship, Giving

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• Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

  Richard Branson

  Long, Risk, Causes

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Oct 02, 2012

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• Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.

  Lilian Katz

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we can move from perfectionism toward optimalism, we never fully leave perfectionism behind and never fully reach optimalism ahead. The optimalism ideal is not a distant shore to be reached but a distant star that guides us and can never be reached. As Carl Rogers pointed out, ‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Stars, Moving, Choices

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• To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Life, Writing, Creating

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Data, Differences

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• Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

  Danielle Steel

  Birthday, Why Not, May

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• I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Later In Life, Age

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, 2008.

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• We should seek the greatest value of our action.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Our Actions, Should

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Prayer, Exercise

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• People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Growing Up, People, Role Models

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1730, Random House

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• There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

  Diana Vreeland

  Want, Very Good, Knows

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• Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

  Solon

  Waiting, Age, Old Age

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• A good life is a collection of happy memories.

  Denis Waitley

  Sports, Memories, Life Is

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• Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God trust Him more deeply than those whose complacent faith permits an abstract and motionless stance before Him. Those who trust God most are those whose faith permits them to risk wrestling with Him over the deepest questions of life. Good hearts are captured in a divine wrestling match; fearful, doubting hearts stay clear of the mat.

  Dan B. Allender

  Hate, Heart, Wrestling

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• It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

  Edward Abbey

  Laughing, Way, Rogues

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Inspire, Ifs

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• Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Anger, Questioning Why, Christian Inspirational

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• The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

  Thales

  Life, Development, Personal Growth

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds". Book by Henry Southgate, p. 338, 1862.

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• Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

  Thales

  Blame, Doing Good, Golden Rule

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Iː36, 1925.

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• First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

  Michael Sandel

  Rights, Justice, Vision

  Michael J. Sandel (2005). “Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Long, Fortune Cookie

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

  Tariq Ramadan

  Want, Never Forget, Dies

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• A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.

  Carl Rogers

  Believe, New Experiences, Would Be

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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