Good Life Quotes - Page 9

• God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

  Jim Butcher

  Exercise, Choices, Want

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Side Jobs: Stories From The Dresden Files: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Life Death, Psychopath, Perks

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.156, Harlequin

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• My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Dog, Children, Fun

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• Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong Women, Kids, Good Friend

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

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• Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Affection, Bases

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.362, 谷月社

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• But is it what we love, or how we love,
  That makes true good?

  George Eliot

  Life

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6238, Delphi Classics

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• Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Loyalty, Passion, People

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• I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Hate, Order

  "The Devil and the Good Lord" by Jean-Paul Sartre, (Act 11, sc. 2), 1951.

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• If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

  Anton Chekhov

  Want, Human Life, Humans

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• I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

  Meryl Streep

  Life Is Good, Lucky, Enough

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• How good life is when one does something good and just!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Kindness, Doe, Life Is

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.2190, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Good Morning, Good Day, Goal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Forgiveness is better than revenge.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Forgiving

  As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius in "Life of Pittacus", i. 76,

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• Hope is the poor man's bread.

  George Herbert

  Life, Hope, Food

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

  Christina Rossetti

  Deeds, Good Deeds, Goodness

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.266, OUP Oxford

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• Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

  Thales

  Light, All Things, Wisest

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, I, 35, 1925.

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• A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.

  Joan Erikson

  Struggle, Life Is Like, Energy

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• The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

  Joseph Butler

  Real, Liberty, Principles

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• Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

  Rod Dreher

  Sex, Party, Men

  Rod Dreher (2010). “Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots”, p.12, Crown

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• I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.

  Joel Osteen

  Jobs, Trying, News

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Morning, Life Is Good

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• A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.

  Luther Burbank

  Believe, Ideas, Survival

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• The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

  Dorothy Allison

  Believe, Class, Racism

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Philosophy, Achievement, Limits

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Out of the sighs a little comes,
  But not of grief, for I have knocked down that
  Before the agony; the spirit grows,
  Forgets, and cries;
  A little comes, is tasted and found good.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Grief, Agony

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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