Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Rogers

A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.

Carl Rogers

This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

Bertrand Russell

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

Robert Kiyosaki

There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it

Maurice Maeterlinck

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

B. F. Skinner

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

Dave Chappelle

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

Catherine Deneuve

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Alan Sillitoe

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

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Vikram Seth

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

Carrie Brownstein

To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness. Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degress of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

Chita Rivera

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.

P. D. James

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

Bob Gill

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

Alan Lightman

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

Billie Joe Armstrong

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

Elif Safak

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

Jamie Chung

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

Daniel Handler

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.