Good Life Quotes - Page 8

• A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. So if we have enough of what we need, let us be content with that.

  Saint Timothy

  Inspirational, Life, Contentment

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• I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but after a few years life gets easier for them and they think they've become completely human when they've only stopped trying. I stopped trying, but my life was so full of strenuous routines that I wouldn't have noticed had it been not for my disease. My whole professional life was a diseased and grandiose attack on my humanity. It is an achievement to know that I am simply a wounded and dying man. Who can be more regal than a dying man?

  Alasdair Gray

  Mean, Fighting, Men

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• If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

  Alain de Botton

  Views, Skills, Differences

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• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Evil, Worry

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• I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mean, Actors, Causes

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• We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish animals could have more than just a low-stress life and a quick, painless death. I wish animals could have a good life, too, with something useful to do. People were animals, too, once, and when we turned into human beings we gave something up. Being close to animals brings some of it back.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Stress, Animal

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• The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Sadness, Psychology, Purpose

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• Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon the gods, is now being assumed by man. The ideal of this modern drift is the realization of the full joy in living.

  Eustace Haydon

  Life, Responsibility, Past

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• Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

  Charles Simmons

  Life, Men, Noble

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• Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

  James M. Paramore

  Life, Peace, Commitment

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• We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Prayer, Children

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.90, tredition

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• The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.

  Mortimer Adler

  Life, Men, Judging

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

  Robert A. Burton

  Humility, Reflection, Assessment

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

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• However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Meaningful, Business, Emotional

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.20, Penguin

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• I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.

  Bradley Whitford

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspirational, Magic, Way

  Song: He Went to Paris

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• I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Pain, Grief, Knowing

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.367, Penguin

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• You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Suffering, Live For Today, Actors

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• People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

  Laura Schlessinger

  Simple, People, Choices

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• I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

  Meg Ryan

  Existential Angst, Complaining, Existentialism

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• It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

  Boris Johnson

  Writing, Media, Careers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know.
  Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Innocent, Spades, Sam Spade

  "Fictional characters: Sam Spade, Brigid O'Shaughnessy". "The Maltese Falcon", 1941.

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• In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dream, Kings, Queens

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1279, Penguin UK

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• You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Hard Work, Son, Thinking

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.625, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.

  George Clooney

  Lucky, Brass, Feels

  "George Clooney on Fame, Failure & Success, Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ and ‘Monuments Men’" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2012.

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