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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charlie Munger

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

Daymond John

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

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Carl Icahn

I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

Carl Jung

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

Bernard of Clairvaux

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Bill Watterson

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.

Bill Watterson

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. 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... To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Visions and hope and faith are not part of science. They are beyond the nature that science knows. Of such is the religion that gives meaning to life.

Bryant H. McGill

If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.

Alain de Botton

If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

Alain de Botton

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

Alain de Botton

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Ajay Devgan

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

Blaise Pascal

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.

Bruno Bettelheim

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.

Barbara Mandrell

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

Barbara Kingsolver

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Barbara Park

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.

Ben Stein

What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they're especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy, and that's just a complete lie,

Arthur C. Clarke

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Anton Chekhov

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

Arianna Huffington

I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'