Good Life Quotes - Page 6

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

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

The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.

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.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

If workers are overworked, or companies hire temps at low wages, this fundamentally comes down to the quality of life for a person. It's bigger than wages. They should be able to spend time with their families. And if they're single, they should be able to have fun and not spend every day of their life working 12 to 15 hours a day and never get a chance to take care of their well-being. To me, that's part of living a good life.

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

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

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

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

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.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.

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

If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

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.

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

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