Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Baggini

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

Shane Filan

You only live once, so live a good life!

Michael Landon

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

Sherman Alexie

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.

Ray Charles

You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.

Simon Van Booy

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

John Waters

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

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Nicole Holofcener

I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity that exists in the world between those people who do and those that don't. I can't say we walk about our guilt a lot, though. If we do, it probably comes out in the form of self-loathing jokes. But it's a tough thing to wrap your head around... the have's and have not's in the world.

Meg Ryan

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

Plato

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Maya Angelou

I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

Maya Angelou

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

Michael Josephson

Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.

Martha Stewart

I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

Theodore Roosevelt

The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

Theodor Herzl

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Thales

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

Thales

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

Thales

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Thales

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Lisa Unger

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

John Ratzenberger

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

James Russell Lowell

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Louise Hay

When we think good thoughts and choose the actions that make us feel good, Life provides us with all the evidence we need that we are loved and cared for.

Louise Hay

I deserve to live a good life, and I begin now.

Jacque Fresco

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

Henry Giroux

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

Henry David Thoreau

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Manny Pacquiao

I'm just appreciative of everything that has happened in my life. I'm overwhelmed, sometimes, by this. When I see where I grew up and the places I've been, it puts a smile on my face because of all the people there I can help. I give them food; I give them money; I try to provide them with a good lifestyle, and do the best I can because that's where I came from. Those are my people.

Jack Welch

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.

Luther Burbank

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.