How to Live a Good Life Quotes

“A good life is not a place at which you arrive, it is a lens through which you see and create your world.”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“research shows that the eight-hours-in-one-shot approach to sleep may be somewhat of a modern invention. When people are removed from all artificial sleep cues, one study found, they start to shift to a sleep pattern of about four hours asleep, 30 to 60 minutes awake, then another three to four hours asleep.”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“There is vitality, a life force, energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. . . .”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“As Mark Twain famously offered, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Where”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“Viktor Frankl tells us in Man’s Search for Meaning that “between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” And in that growth and freedom lies the heartbeat of a life well lived. Question”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“What if you don’t so much have a passion or purpose as much as you pursue something, or a bunch of things, with passion and a sense of purpose?”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“Reactive Life Syndrome. Living each day not by choice, but by default. Doing what we can simply to keep up and tread water.”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“The National Institutes of Health suggest that school-age children need at least ten hours of sleep daily, teens need nine to ten hours, and adults need seven to eight hours.”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“Many medications also actually put you into more of a hypnotic state than a true deep sleep. That may leave you feeling like you’ve been out cold, but there is increasing doubt about whether it really provides anywhere near the restorative benefit true sleep delivers.”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“much of the industry has been built around solutions that work for the industry, but not for the people it seeks to serve. Rows”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“Awareness is the seed of more aligned being and doing, which”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“Mindfulness is about slowing down, noticing and seeing what is really happening in front of you in this moment, without the anxiety of expectation or the haze of regret. In”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving.26”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom