Good Life Quotes - Page 20

• We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

  Cato the Elder

  Inspirational, Evil, Gossip

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• You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

  Ian Mckellen

  Believe, Thinking, Want

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• I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Blood, Sweat, Politics

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• I think life is simpler than we tend to think. We look for answers and more answers. But there are no answers. Things happen in life, good things and bad. People say, 'Why did it happen to me?' Well, why not? Some people win the lottery, and others die in a car crash. It happens, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe doesn't care what happens to you.

  Nando Parrado

  Thinking, Winning, Car

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• Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

  Richard Blanco

  Art, Answers, Asks

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• If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

  Etty Hillesum

  Confidence, Worry, Succeed

  Etty Hillesum (1983). “An interrupted life: the diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, Lester & Orpen Dennys

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• The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

  William Osler

  Vision, Experience, Seeing

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.61, Ravenio Books

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• My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

  Ziggy Marley

  Forgiveness, Dream, People

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Jun 26, 2012

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• Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Soul, May

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• I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

  Meister Eckhart

  Circles, Wish, Goodness

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• Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Roots, Evil, Boredom

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• Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

  Aristotle

  Men, Order, Cities

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• Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Action, Good Work, Goodness

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• The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

  Iris Murdoch

  Requirements, Life Is, Chiefs

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.112, Penguin

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• I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

  David Coverdale

  Careers, Decision, Made

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• I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

  Ella Maillart

  Desert, Green, Wise Women

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• Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

  Rollo May

  Life, Survival, Care

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.

  Kate Bush

  Sex, Thinking, Blood

  Song: Symphony In Blue, Album: Lionheart, 1978

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• When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

  Aristotle

  Self, Community, Needs

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1987, Princeton University Press

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• If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Biblical, Complaining, Asking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2704, Simon and Schuster

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• Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Giving, Together

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• There's a happiness about me, a confidence and a happiness that I didn't have when I was younger. You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before. You can be really good-looking in your twenties but feel miserable, and people just sort of walk away.

  Norman Reedus

  People, Feel Good, Twenties

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If you are good life is good.

  Roald Dahl

  Life Is Good, Life Is, Ifs

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• You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.

  Jack Welch

  Passion, Golf, Winning

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• Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life.

  Charlene Costanzo

  May, Goodness, Passages

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