Good Life Quotes - Page 23

• The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Signatures, Life Is

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

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• You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, War, Value Yourself

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• All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

  Grace Paley

  Survival, Peculiar, Interest In Life

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.63, Macmillan

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• The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

  Aristotle

  Sake, States, Existence

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• The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

  Warren Buffett

  Teacher, Mean, Fighting

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• Value your words. Each one may be the last.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  May, Lasts, Positive Atheism

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• Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Humor, Blessing

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.

  Edwin Markham

  Stars, Brotherhood, Finals

  Edwin Markham, Ben Barr Lindsey, George Creel, Leonore MacKay (1914). “Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation of the Anxious Problem of Child Labor-its Causes, Its Crimes, and Its Cure”

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• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves.

  Eric Greitens

  Meaningful, Strong, Community

  FaceBook post by Eric Greitens from Sep 23, 2015

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• A good life is a main argument.

  Ben Jonson

  Inspirational Life, Argument, Life Is

  Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

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• I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Motivational, Witty

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• The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Keys, Priorities

  Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson (2007). “An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given”, Hyperion

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• Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

  June Jordan

  Running, Hurt, Trying

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.105, Basic Books

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• We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

  Georges Duhamel

  Missing You, Memories, Cherish Every Moment

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Needs, Obsession, Obsessed

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• Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Rain, Coffee, Animal

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

  Ann Bridge

  Ideas, Enemy, World

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.

  Aristotle

  Spring, Men, Evil

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2113, Princeton University Press

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• While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Achievement, Feelings, Quality

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.358

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• Probably not for about 10 years, because I've got so much to do before then, but I really want to have four kids ... I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

  Margot Robbie

  Kids, Years, Australia

  "Margot Robbie makes it hard to Focus with VERY sexy Vogue Australia shoot" by Fay Strang, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2015.

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• I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.

  Chris Hayes

  Country, Real, Believe

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

  Epictetus

  Practice, Rewards, Goodness

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• I like Aurora, Sleeping Beauty, because shes just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

  Ariana Grande

  Cute, Sleep, Fighting

  "We Sent Two of Ariana Grande's Biggest Fans to Interview Her - Come See What Happened!". www.glamour.com. September 5, 2013.

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• The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

  Dominic Cooper

  Country, Iraq, People

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