Good Life Quotes

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”
― Alain de Botton

“There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Liberalism and Its Critics

“Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”
― Germany Kent

“Find your focus by seeking all that is good in your life.”
― Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

“Sometimes life will be awesome. Sometimes, life will look blurry. Along the way in the journey of life, sometimes, life will be colder than warmer and sometimes warmer than colder but in all things we must remember that it is never over for a purposeful journey of life until the journey of life is over. Be it rough or smooth, good or bad, we must accomplish the task. It shall always not be good and it shall always not be bad; we only have to work hard.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The menopause of Sarah became her menostart; this is feminine beauty! The death plot against Mordecai became his life spring; this is masculine beauty! A kind of life lived in God's word is a life of miraculous beauty!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person think badly inspires another to do a noble thing! The same good situation in life that makes one person feel so good to get into a bad situation inspires another person to create another good situation because of the good situation. It is all about thoughts, choices and actions! Life is good! Live it well!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.”
― Meryl Streep

“The more I connect with my sensuality the more I experience God. As the wind blows through the curtains, that’s how sweet His presence is.”
― Lebo Grand

“Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“The will to dream, the courage to act and the hope to win are the stuffs that make life meaningful! Create the life you wish to live and live it fully!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“A good life is a collection of happy moments.”
― Denis Waitley

“[T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its value consists precisely in its refusal to affirm a preferred way of life or conception of the good.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Liberalism and Its Critics

“The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“Friendship is like a walk in the wood; you may not know the terrain too well or even know where you are headed yet you enjoy it all the same!”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option

“Человек рождается на свет единожды и вправе прожить свой век без потрясений и с минимальным числом печальных дней.”
― Vladislav Krapivin, Выстрел с монитора. Гуси-гуси, га-га-га...

“A sensual lifestyle is a lifestyle you can have an affair with for the rest of your life.”
― Lebo Grand

“Good life is not a sprint. It’s an exerting marathon of purpose, passion, patience and perseverance. It’s the road where faith and hard work meet. It is an unusual love adventure between success and failure. It is where truth is a belt and integrity a shield. It is knowing your lane, staying on your lane and running your own race. It’s a road loathed and less traveled by most men.”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“Unlike tires, life has no spare.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Good deeds through the day makes you sleep well at night.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“It's a good Day for Kokomo”
― Michael Harris

“As their personal connections to a geographical community shrink, so people look to work to compensate; volunteer schemes organised through the workplace and corporate social responsibility programmes become a substitute. Putnam quotes one commentator's conclusion: 'As more Americans spend more of their time "at work", work gradually becomes less of a one-dimensional activity and assumes more of the concerns and activities of both private (family) and public (social and political) life.

It is the corporation which hands out advice on toddler pottytraining and childcare, offers parenthood classes and sets up a reading support programme in a local school - all of which exist in British corporations – rather than the social networks of family, friends and neighbours. This amounts to a form of corporate neopaternalism which binds the employee ever tighter into a suffocating embrace, underpinning the kind of invasive management techniques described in Chapter 4.”
― Madeleine Bunting, Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture Is Ruling Our Lives

“But one can see exactly why Dr Ali is so successful - he seems to offer a solution within the individual's grasp: you may not be able to change deadlines and workloads, but you can make yourself more efficient. Ancient wisdoms can be adapted to speed up human beings: this is the kind of individualised response which fits neatly into a neo-liberal market ideology. It draws on Eastern contemplative traditions of yoga and meditation which place the emphasis on individual transformation, and questions the effectiveness of collective political or social activism. Reflexology, aromatherapy, acupuncture, massage - these alternative therapies are all booming as people seek to improve their sense of well-being and vitality. Much of it makes sense - although trips to the Himalayas are hardly within the reach of most workers and the complementary health movement plays an important role in raising people's under standing of their own health and how to look after themselves. But the philosophy of improving ‘personal performance' also plays into the hands of employers' rationale that well-being and coping with stress are the responsibility of the individual employee. It reinforces the tendency for individuals to search for 'biographic solutions to structural contradictions', as the sociologist Ulrich Beck put it: forget the barricades, it's revolution from within that matters. This cultural preoccupation with personal salvation stymies collective reform, and places an onerous burden on the individual. It effectively reinforces the anxieties and insecurities which it offers to assuage.”
― Madeleine Bunting, Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture Is Ruling Our Lives

“[...] The revolution was left unfinished. The feminists of the sixties and seventies challenged the rigid division of labour between men and women; they wanted women to have access to the workplace, and men to rediscover their role at home. The psychotherapist Susie Orbach reflects on the thinking of the seventies: 'We wanted to challenge the whole distribution of work we wanted to put at the centre of everything the reproduction of daily life, but feminism got seduced by the work ethic. My generation wanted to change the values of the workplace so that it accepted family life.'

This radical agenda for the reorganisation of work and home was abandoned in Britain. Instead we took on the American model of feminism, influenced by the rise of neo-liberalism and individualism. Feminism acquired shoulderpads and an appetite for power; it celebrated individual achievement rather than working out how to transform the separation between work and family, and the social processes of how we care for dependants and raise children. Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt remembers a turning point in the debate in the UK when she was at the National Council for Civil Liberties: 'The key moment was when we organised a major conference in the seventies with a lot of American speakers who were terrific feminists. When they arrived we were astonished that they were totally uninterested in an agenda around better maternity leave, etc. They argued that we couldn't claim special treatment in the workplace; women would simply prove they were equals. You couldn't make claims on the workplace. We thought it was appalling.”
― Madeleine Bunting, Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture Is Ruling Our Lives

“Millionaire is not the one who has a million dollars, millionaire is the one who has a million moments to cherish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“The apparent passage of time exists for the purpose of love; so to be able to love and be loved in return, so to be able to experience companionship, so to be able to experience friendship and all the good stuff that comes with having one another including laughter, joy, and happiness.”
― Wald Wassermann

“It’ll never be as good as it can ever be unless it’s sensual.”
― Lebo Grand

“Maturity is the hability of calmly and politely saying 'no thank you' to sh*t and moving on with life with dignity.”
― Rodolfo Peon