Living The Good Life Quotes

Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

There are as many ways of living a good life as there are people living lives.

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

If workers are overworked, or companies hire temps at low wages, this fundamentally comes down to the quality of life for a person. It's bigger than wages. They should be able to spend time with their families. And if they're single, they should be able to have fun and not spend every day of their life working 12 to 15 hours a day and never get a chance to take care of their well-being. To me, that's part of living a good life.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

Live your life to the fullest.

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.