Quotes on Good Life

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

The best things in life aren't things.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

May you live all the days of your life.

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.