The Good Life Quotes

“Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
― Solon

“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”
― MONTAIGNE

“THE GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in new things; A GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in moments.

To enjoy THE GOOD LIFE we have to get ahead; to enjoy A GOOD LIFE we have to make the trip worthwhile.

THE GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our pocketbooks; A GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our souls.”
― Steve Goodier

“health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection, family leave, vacation; place tenure, a commons; access to wilderness, mountains, ocean; peace, political stability, political input, political satisfaction; air, water, esteem; status, recognition; home, community, neighbors, civil society, sports, the arts; longevity treatments, gender choice; the opportunity to become more what you are

that's all you need”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312

“Reading is important. It’s not primarily escapism (though it can be, and there’s nothing wrong with some of that in good measure) and it’s not primarily a way of passing the time. Reading is important to the good life because it stokes the furnaces of our intellect, allows us to expand our understanding of the universe, both inner and outer, for practical gain and simple pleasure. It can induce awe, inspire respect, excite, piss off, and intrigue. These are things that make life worth living.”
― Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!

“If you haven’t learned something
From periods of suffering,
If you haven’t wrung the juices
Of your own pain and drank them
For your own nourishment,
You have wasted your experience
And missed the chance
To expand the capacity
For being stronger the next time
That these seasons arrive at your door.”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“I know you’ve never been told this before, but a life without sensuality is far beneath what you deserve.”
― Lebo Grand

“What are your success metrics then?" I frowned at Tola, and she shrugged.

"I dunno ... being comfortable in your skin, having loads of adventures, living with purpose, being happy, having good people in your life, taking risks?”
― Lauren Forsythe, The Fixer Upper

“The way is open, ride the wave of success again today. You can't lose.”
― Sereda Aleta Dailey, The Art of Manifesting Abundance

“In life, as in war, there are many ways to stay alive. But not all of them are right and honourable. The difficult part is not to stay alive but to live in the right way. We spend our lives running away from death or other frightful things like unemployment. But we should remember that there are faster runners than either death or destitution that can catch us much more quickly, especially if we cannot see them, such as wickedness and lack of integrity. I am leaving you today having lost my job, but wickedness also leaves here today empty-handed; it did not catch me because truth, honesty, and goodness chased them away. I am happy to report that my spine and moral fibre are all intact. I consider this result acceptable and if not just, just enough.”
― Aviezer Tucker, Plato for Everyone

“A sensual lifestyle must achieve perfect harmony between reality and fantasy, practicality and aspirational.”
― Lebo Grand

“Relationships can be mundane and boring. What I love about sensual living is that it gives you the ability to be innovative. You are able to introduce things that your partner don't know they want or need yet, and thus keep the excitement up. More like what Steve Jobs did with Apple. He said I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page. Now that's the essence of true sensual living right there.”
― Lebo Grand

“The suburban dream began innocently enough one and a half centuries ago, with a weariness of city life and a craving for all things green bright and pure.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

“As children, learn good manners.
As young men, learn to control the passions.
In middle age, be just.
In old age, give good advice.
Then die, without regret.”
― Clearchus

“The superfluity of theoretical ethics is obvious in simple cases. Suppose, for instance, that your child is ill. Love makes you wish to cure it, and science tells you how to do so. There is not an intermediate stage of ethical theory, where it is demonstrated that your child had better be cured. Your act springs directly from desire for an end, together with knowledge of means. This is equally true of all acts, whether good or bad. The ends differ, and the knowledge is more adequate in some cases than in others. But there is no conceivable way of making people do things they do not wish to do. What is possible is to alter their desires by a system of rewards and penalties, among which social approval and disapproval are not the least potent... If I say that the legislative authority has bad desires, I mean merely that its desires conflict with those of some section of the community to which I belong. Outside human desire there is no moral standard.”
― Bertrand Russell, What I Believe

“When I said that the good life consists of love guided by knowledge, the desire which prompted me was the desire to live such a life as far as possible, and to see others living it; and the logical content of the statement is that, in a community where men live in this way, more desires will be satisfied than in one where there is less love or less knowledge.”
― Bertrand Russell, What I Believe

“What are you left with
When you notice your thoughts
Without being entangled in their web?

The present

This”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“One cannot think well, love well, and live well until one has learnt how to honor their own sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“The most beautiful thing we can ever experience in life is sensuality. He to whom this emotion is a stranger is as good as dead.”
― Lebo Grand

“Sensuality is what makes you come alive.”
― Lebo Grand

“People pity animals for their brief lives, but our life is a bigger tragedy since it is just long enough to make us believe it is worth worrying about.”
― Sevens, Lessons From Life's End: Four Short Pieces of Parting Wisdom for a Meaningful Existence

“People say video games are a waste of time, but how is a life spent for worldly success any different? When it’s game over, there is nothing to show but an old high score.”
― Sevens, Lessons From Life's End: Four Short Pieces of Parting Wisdom for a Meaningful Existence

“We live today in the grand age of diversion, and the reasons why are obvious. With our economic prosperity, our high-tech devices and the cornucopia of entertainment pressing for our attention, we can surround ourselves with diversion from the cradle to grave. We do not focus our attention on anything for long. We do not ask what 'the good life' is and what it requires. Happiness is a small circle, and it is no surprise that the last thing on most people's minds at any moment is the question of the meaning of life, the coming of death and the priorities that are needed to choose wisely. What Socrates call the 'unexamined life' that is 'not worth living' now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.”
― Os Guinness, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion