Good Life Quotes

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

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

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

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

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.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.

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.