Good Life Quotes - Page 9

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

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.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

In France, it's just.., if you're the son of someone, you can be sure that you will have a good life. Because you're the son of this guy or the daughter of that guy you will be introduced to this person who will give you a job even if you're totally incompetent.

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

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.

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.

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

The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

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

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

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

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life.

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.