Top 100 Quotes About Good Life
#1. I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.
Italo Calvino
#2. What a wise man knows, therefore, is how to construct a pattern that, given the human situation, is likely to lead to a good life.
H.W. Charles
#3. I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.
Anthony Hopkins
#4. Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.
Matt Simpson
#5. 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
#6. If it is so easy to help people in real need through no fault of their own, and yet we fail to do so, aren't we doing something wrong? At a minimum, I hope this book will persuade you that there is something deeply askew with our widely accepted views about what it is to live a good life.
Peter Singer
#7. It is a metaphor for life, perhaps, in that everything is a metaphor for life. The berry season is short. So how full, exactly, do I intend to fill the box? Or, if we slice away the metaphor, we could just ask this: what does the good life look like for me?
Laura Vanderkam
#8. Material things should complement a good life, not be used as indicators of a good life.
Joan Ambu
#9. A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.
Keith Urban
#10. Find your place. Be happy with what you have. Treat everyone well. Live a good life. It isn't about material things; it's about love.
Vicki Myron Y Bret Witter
#11. I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.
Meister Eckhart
#12. 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
#13. You have to fight for what you want in life. You can't live your life in the shadow of your brothers or sisters or parents; you have to live your life, and make it a good life, because you only have one.
Gaby Rodriguez
#14. Remember that the divine order is intelligent and fundamentally good. Life is not a series of random, meaningless episodes, but an ordered, elegant whole that follows ultimately comprehensible laws.
Epictetus
#15. Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#16. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.
John Waters
#17. The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.
Tim Chester
#18. It is a good life we lead, brother,' said Federico with uncharacteristic solemnity.
'The best,' Ezio agreed.'And may it never change.'
They both paused - neither wishing to break the perfection of the moment - but after a while Federico quietly spoke.'May it never change us either, fratellino.
Oliver Bowden
#19. Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.
Derek Ridgers
#20. Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.
Jon Tester
#24. I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
Maeve Binchy
#26. There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
#27. Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#28. Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense.
Jonathan Franzen
#29. My mum told me to work hard. Insisted that if I did, I'd make a good life for myself. But all my hard work had gotten me dead, tortured, re-dead, kicked out of heaven, re-alived, and now squatting in the bushes behind a morgue.
Devon Monk
#30. Just focus on how good life is right now.
Ali Harris
#31. The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
William Sloane Coffin
#32. You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.
Jack Welch
#33. I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore.
Liza Minnelli
#34. If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.
Anton Chekhov
#35. I don't know who said it but, "The best revenge is to live a good life.
Roberta Gibson
#36. I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.
Michael Winter
#37. Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.
Koren Zailckas
#38. If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.
Adam Carolla
#39. 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
#40. The secret to a good life," he told me once, "is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.
Karen Joy Fowler
#41. There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#42. Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
Confucius
#43. Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know."
Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
Dashiell Hammett
#44. 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
#45. Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.
Tim Kimmel
#46. No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career - something will inevitably ruin it.
Timothy Keller
#47. There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
Diana Vreeland
#48. Elder brothers' inability to handle suffering arises from the fact that their moral observance is results-oriented. The good life is lived not for delight in good deeds themselves, but as calculated ways to control their environment.
Timothy Keller
#49. 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
#51. To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you're made.
Iris Apfel
#52. There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.
Emma Forrest
#53. 'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
LeRoy Neiman
#54. Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.
Atul Gawande
#55. The key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth
Simon Van Booy
#56. I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'
Arianna Huffington
#57. I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
Carl Icahn
#58. I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.
Shane Smith
#59. You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before.
Norman Reedus
#60. I haven't had a perfect life ... but I have had a perfectly good life!
Kevin Costner
#61. The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.
Edwin Markham
#62. Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
Richard Branson
#63. I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
Aaron Paul
#64. I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
Jan Hus
#65. What does it take to live a good life? The philosopher had written something about this quite early on in the course. Everybody needs food, warmth, love, and care. Such basics
Jostein Gaarder
#66. You remember what you told me, Mom? That there are no medals for the completion of a good life? I've been thinking about that. About how no one wins. Like you said, it's impossible to win, because the finish line is death.
J.A. Konrath
#67. The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.
Beyonce Knowles
#68. Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.
Jim Henson
#69. The good life . . . cannot be mere indulgence. It must contain a measure of grit and truth," observed geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. Tuan
Eric Weiner
#70. 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
#71. The most important thing is not life, but the good life.
Plato
#72. Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.
Sara Zarr
#73. You can avoid Jesus as Savior by keeping all the moral laws. If you do that, then you have "rights." God owes you answered prayers, and a good life, and a ticket to heaven when you die. You don't need a Savior who pardons you by free grace, for you are your own Savior.
Timothy Keller
#75. The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Carl R. Rogers
#76. Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. It is a good life, Hazel Grace.
John Green
#77. I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
Andrew Young
#79. How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.
Neal A. Maxwell
#80. 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
#81. Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
Harold Ramis
#82. An imaginative man is apt to see, in his life, the story of his life; and is thereby led to conduct himself in life in such a manner as to make a good story of it rather than a good life.
Henry Taylor
#83. You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw
#84. Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.
Peter Singer
#85. You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you're not good enough because they can't understand who you are.
Barbara Sher
#86. A wife can give you strife. A wife can act like a knife, and a wife can help you have a good life. And the same goes for husbands.
Art Hochberg
#87. We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.
Seneca.
#88. I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.
Alec Monopoly
#89. I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.
Nick Lachey
#90. [At age 76:] A good life is like a good play
it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.
Ethel Barrymore
#91. I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.
Dalai Lama
#92. Don't be afraid of life. How good life is when one does somethings good and just.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#93. He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.
June Carter Cash
#94. I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?
Huey Lewis
#95. 8He is ever present with me; at all times He goes before me. I will not live in fear or abandon my calling because He stands at my right hand. 9This is a good life - my heart is glad, my soul is full of joy, and my body is at rest. Who could want for more?
Anonymous
#97. Biology is not destiny. There are ways to lead a good life with depression. Indeed, people who learn from their depression can develop a particular moral profundity from the experience,
Andrew Solomon
#98. Not just survival but a good life, full of learning, full of love, Emilio thought, and took a step closer to the death he felt inside himself. He
Mary Doria Russell
#99. A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.
Karina Bliss
#100. Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
Aristotle.
