When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).
Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.
I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles. . . by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
It is a good life, Hazel Grace.
The good life is one that's artistically made.
I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
Measure a person by what they do with power.
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but after a few years life gets easier for them and they think they've become completely human when they've only stopped trying. I stopped trying, but my life was so full of strenuous routines that I wouldn't have noticed had it been not for my disease. My whole professional life was a diseased and grandiose attack on my humanity. It is an achievement to know that I am simply a wounded and dying man. Who can be more regal than a dying man?
Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.
There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.
I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets. " It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.