Top 100 Good Living Sayings

#1. Hate gets no god.

Fakeer Ishavardas

Good Living Sayings #2400
#2. It is good to work for your living.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Good Living Sayings #2488
#3. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

George Eliot

Good Living Sayings #3984
#4. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

Bruce Dern

Good Living Sayings #7455
#5. Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.

Jonny Lee Miller

Good Living Sayings #13385
#6. I am always living very good moments.

Jose Carreras

Good Living Sayings #15047
#7. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Denis Diderot

Good Living Sayings #16755
#8. I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

Martha Plimpton

Good Living Sayings #17569
#9. Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.

Mindy Starns Clark

Good Living Sayings #17869
#10. At the end of the day it's not 'what looks good' that matters, it's 'what feels' good.

Maddy Malhotra

Good Living Sayings #21673
#11. A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

Robert A. Heinlein

Good Living Sayings #21942
#12. If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.

John Holt

Good Living Sayings #22843
#13. Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.

James W. Loewen

Good Living Sayings #22910
#14. Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.

Marci Shimoff

Good Living Sayings #26635
#15. Can you see why I can't stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world."
Sometimes people lie for good reasons," Jonah said. "To keep you safe, or to avoid breaking your heart, or to make it possible for you to go on living.

Cinda Williams Chima

Good Living Sayings #32081
#16. What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!

Ken Puddicombe

Good Living Sayings #36119
#17. Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

Martin Luther

Good Living Sayings #36846
#18. Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.

Rick Mercer

Good Living Sayings #38199
#19. We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Good Living Sayings #40346
#20. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Good Living Sayings #41712
#21. One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.

Natalie Taylor

Good Living Sayings #44756
#22. That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.

Rene Russo

Good Living Sayings #48064
#23. If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

Tryon Edwards

Good Living Sayings #48804
#24. The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Martin Seligman

Good Living Sayings #49202
#25. The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mahatma Gandhi

Good Living Sayings #49767
#26. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm very blessed and lucky to have made a good living doing what I've loved to do. I just hope I can do another one after this.

Donnie Fritts

Good Living Sayings #51561
#27. Reap your harvest. (Benefits) You have been sowing seeds on good soil. (Working Hard) Your garden is overflowing abundantly.(Successful) Now is the time for you to fill your basket with the fruits of your labor. (Savings). Prepare your soil for new seeds. (Investments)

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Good Living Sayings #51598
#28. The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.

Thomas S. Monson

Good Living Sayings #56183
#29. What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

Terry Brooks

Good Living Sayings #59544
#30. First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.

Meek Mill

Good Living Sayings #59805
#31. Oh, hang it all! what's the good - I mean, the good of living in a room for ever? There one goes on day after day, same old game, same up and down to town, until you forget there is any other game. You ought to see once in a way what's going on outside, if it's only nothing particular after all.

E. M. Forster

Good Living Sayings #60126
#32. Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.

Malcolm Forbes

Good Living Sayings #62739
#33. The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.

Robertson Davies

Good Living Sayings #64088
#34. I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

Samm Levine

Good Living Sayings #66268
#35. I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.

Chuck Feeney

Good Living Sayings #66571
#36. I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Deirdre O'Kane

Good Living Sayings #67058
#37. There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

Franz Schubert

Good Living Sayings #67106
#38. To the eye a shot is only geometry and yardage and wind, but to a still-beating heart pulling a trigger on another living body and watching it fall is to be avoided, it does not give you a good feeling. If you aren't a psychopath or a male.

Brian McGreevy

Good Living Sayings #67792
#39. The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Jann Arden

Good Living Sayings #73346
#40. Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

Catherine Crook De Camp

Good Living Sayings #74413
#41. Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good Living Sayings #74799
#42. If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.

Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Good Living Sayings #80677
#43. A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Mother Teresa

Good Living Sayings #82810
#44. We just have to go to that next class, read that next chapter, help that next person. You simply have to do that next good thing, and before you know it, you're living a good life.

Andrew Clements

Good Living Sayings #89967
#45. There is...no easy answer to the evil and suffering problem and no easy road to its solution. But Christ tackled the matter radically and realistically by winning the allegiance of a few men and women to a new way of living...They were to be the spearhead of good against evil.

J.B. Phillips

Good Living Sayings #90299
#46. Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Good Living Sayings #94480
#47. And if the world went to hell in a handbasket-as it seemed to be doing-you could say good-bye to everyone and retreat to your land, hunkering down and living off it.

Jeannette Walls

Good Living Sayings #97377
#48. Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

Albert C. Barnes

Good Living Sayings #102035
#49. There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.

Michael Collins

Good Living Sayings #103837
#50. The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

Neal Shusterman

Good Living Sayings #108181
#51. Just for tonight, let's pretend I'm not a priest and you're not crazy. We're just two normal human beings having a good time. Just a man and a woman at a rip-off carnival, living in the moment.

Nancee Cain

Good Living Sayings #108914
#52. Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.

Rosalind Lauer

Good Living Sayings #109720
#53. One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.

Patrick O'Brian

Good Living Sayings #110292
#54. Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

Jennifer Paynter

Good Living Sayings #113729
#55. Life is a sacred spark of divinity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Good Living Sayings #114891
#56. Be careful of living your life based only on faith and signs, or you might find yourself standing in a South American jungle holding a glass of Kool-aid. Commonsense is the foundation of any good testimony.

Shannon L. Alder

Good Living Sayings #117243
#57. Life was good, one had only to live it.

Jorge Amado

Good Living Sayings #117493
#58. If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.

Cosimo Matassa

Good Living Sayings #117946
#59. I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Good Living Sayings #118200
#60. want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray

Jason Gray

Good Living Sayings #118657
#61. Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning ... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Lynn Margulis

Good Living Sayings #120272
#62. The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Good Living Sayings #120887
#63. I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

Chris Matthews

Good Living Sayings #121548
#64. Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

John Sterling

Good Living Sayings #122290
#65. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis

Constance Savery

Good Living Sayings #127440
#66. I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

Bill Plympton

Good Living Sayings #128349
#67. The way we saw things, it didn't matter that God had created the heavens and the earth - he did not want us excited about living here. A good fundamentalist worth his weight in guilt was quick to remind any skeptic that the world was going to hell in a handbasket.

Matthew Paul Turner

Good Living Sayings #128801
#68. Despite the fact that living a BDSM lifestyle carries with it a certain social stigma, recent studies seem to indicate that BDSM may actually be good for you.

Michael Makai

Good Living Sayings #130989
#69. How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Robert Browning

Good Living Sayings #131458
#70. You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Jane Seymour

Good Living Sayings #131610
#71. Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Joseph Addison

Good Living Sayings #133970
#72. Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.

Amit Ray

Good Living Sayings #134794
#73. In character-building and in living the Christian life, concentration is important. The [person] who has a general interest in everything usually isn't too good at anything.

Billy Graham

Good Living Sayings #135001
#74. What good was living if a man didn't have a family?

Michelle M. Pillow

Good Living Sayings #137030
#75. What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

William Kent Krueger

Good Living Sayings #138035
#76. Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

Aniruddha Sastikar

Good Living Sayings #140053
#77. I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

Jim Henson

Good Living Sayings #140877
#78. The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

Roland Barthes

Good Living Sayings #141408
#79. If you have failed more than others, there is a very good chance you are living more completely than others.

Robin S. Sharma

Good Living Sayings #143122
#80. I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

Marc Wallice

Good Living Sayings #145727
#81. Life just wouldn't be worth living without a good story!

Louisa Mullerworth

Good Living Sayings #146526
#82. An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.

Henry Rollins

Good Living Sayings #147595
#83. We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things."

Wilferd Peterson

Good Living Sayings #149286
#84. Good-bye Holmes. It ... hasn't really been a pleasure. But thank you for the information. Be careful to keep out of prison. Unless you want an upgrade to your current living conditions, then I wish you the best.

Zechariah Barrett

Good Living Sayings #150309
#85. I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Barry Eisler

Good Living Sayings #151542
#86. Sometimes we need to feel bad to know what it's like to feel good ...

Nitra Gipson

Good Living Sayings #153913
#87. Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.

Marc Jacobs

Good Living Sayings #155717
#88. What can I say at seventy-five? Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.

Agatha Christie

Good Living Sayings #158038
#89. Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

William Cowper

Good Living Sayings #163550
#90. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

McCall Hoyle

Good Living Sayings #165810
#91. Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Jack London

Good Living Sayings #166383
#92. Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

Chas Scott

Good Living Sayings #175147
#93. I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to get a good job or have a decent living.

Jeremih

Good Living Sayings #177255
#94. Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living.

Mark Haddon

Good Living Sayings #177868
#95. But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Good Living Sayings #180052
#96. A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he only ought to consider whether he is doing right or wrong.

John Steinbeck

Good Living Sayings #182862
#97. I want it to serve as a reminder of the terrible human consequences of Mao's dictatorship and of how good and talented people living under his regime were forced to violate their consciences and sacrifice their ideals in order to survive.

Li Zhisui

Good Living Sayings #187379
#98. It's true; most souls come here in whatever clothing they died in, truly unfortunate for the people who died naked. Of course, it's really worse for us than them. Most people don't look good without their clothes,...

Tabitha Barret

Good Living Sayings #191010
#99. I'll never retire as long as I live - that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.

Bel Kaufman

Good Living Sayings #194773
#100. A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character.

Jose Padilha

Good Living Sayings #195264

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