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• It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

  St. Jerome

  Jerusalem, Christianity, Praiseworthy

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• There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life.

  Annie Dillard

  Sweet, Reading, Good Day

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• There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And 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

  Life, Biblical, Two

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Believe, Feet, Love Of My Life

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love of God. That will guarantee a good life.

  Pope Francis

  Wise, Thinking, Three

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• Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

  Lauren Hutton

  Travel, Ideas, White

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• For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Reality, Wings, Mind

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Ballads for the Times: (now First Collected), Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Hactenus, A Thousand Lines, and Other Poems”, p.156

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• Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Evil, Support

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.130

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• A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Inspirational, Wise, Moving

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• The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Successful, Deeds, Littles

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• The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.

  Paul Kurtz

  Destiny, Atheism, Able

  Paul Kurtz (1986). “The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal”

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• This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

  Carl Rogers

  Mean, Growing, Becoming

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Survival

  "Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race". Book by Bob Fenster, September 2000.

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• Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Patterns, Action, Theory

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• A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Biblical, Life Is

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

  William Penn

  Men, Fit, Hereafter

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• Personally, I am enthusiastic about the future. You can be too. You are living in the most exciting period of time in history. Many reasons could be cited for that optimism. Yet your greatest source of hope and assurance is that you have the fulness of the teachings of the Master. They will show you how to live a good life. You can receive ordinances and covenants that when righteously lived assure true happiness and significant attainment.

  Richard G. Scott

  Teaching, Optimism, Covenant

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• My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

  Donald Trump

  Long, People, Parent

  "Donald Trump’s interview with Dr. Oz was just as amazingly strange as we thought it would be". www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Issues, Important, Excited

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Care, Joining, Engagement

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you begin to listen to your own questions. That was the reality for me when I was 27, and it was really terrifying.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Reality, Long

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.

  Art Linkletter

  Family, God, Children

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• A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Feelings, Throwing, Certain

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life.

  Aerin Lauder

  Positive, Mean, Laughing

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• I would like to think that we are on a move that could be like [Ronald] Reagan. Reagan appealed to the average working American: their patriotism, their love of country, the belief in their schools and their communities and their loyalty to the military and police, and the things that create stability and a good life.

  Jeff Sessions

  Loyalty, Country, Military

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