Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

Lytton Strachey

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

Louisa May Alcott

In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

Leo Tolstoy

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

Joseph Campbell

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

John Lee Hooker

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

Emanuel Swedenborg

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

Joseph Butler

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.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.

Margot Robbie

Probably not for about 10 years, because I've got so much to do before then, but I really want to have four kids . . . I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia. It's such a good lifestyle.

Paul Kurtz

The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.

John Dryden

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

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.

Meg Ryan

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

Kenneth Rexroth

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

Ken Hensley

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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.

Neal A. Maxwell

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

Neal A. Maxwell

The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

Mark Wahlberg

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Maeve Binchy

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

Mae West

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

Madonna Ciccone

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

Macaulay Culkin

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.

Lykke Li

The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

Liza Minnelli

I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.