Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.

John Green

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

It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

Michael Sandel

What I really want for my children is that they be loved and that they be happy and that they lead a good life.

Michael Sandel

If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community. 'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end.

Michael Sandel

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

George McGovern

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

Terry Pratchett

I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.

Reese Witherspoon

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

Richard Branson

Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

Tina Yothers

Be all you can be and live a good life, have fun with it.

St. Jerome

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

Roger Daltrey

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

Sam Simon

Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.

William Sloane Coffin

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 Shatner

The good life is one that's artistically made.

William J. Clinton

If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.

Sara Zarr

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.

Willard Van Orman Quine

To be is to be the value of a variable.

Saint Augustine

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

William Osler

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

Zig Ziglar

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.