Good Life Quotations

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

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

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.

I'm a married woman. I love my husband; I have a good life.

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

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

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.

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

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

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.

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.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

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.

I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently.

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

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

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.

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.

There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going.

I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

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?

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

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.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

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.

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

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.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

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. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred.

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

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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

The good life is one that's artistically made.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

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.

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.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

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.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

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

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.