Good Life Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 18, 2024
‘The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.’ – Bertrand Russell
‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.’ – Carl Rogers
‘Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.’ – Socrates
‘The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.’ – Norman Thomas
‘There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.’ – Christopher Morley
‘The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.’ – Martin Seligman
‘You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.’ – Tom Brokaw
‘A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.’ – David Lammy
‘Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.’ – Garrison Keillor
‘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.’ – Ziggy Marley
‘Life is good when we think it’s good. Life is bad when we don’t think.’ – Douglas Horton
‘Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It’s always about people; it’s always about ego. It’s always about desperation. It’s quite existential. You know, ‘Am I leading a good life?’ That might be because I’m an atheist, and I think this is all we’ve got, so you better be nice. And have fun.’ – Ricky Gervais
‘The good life is built with good relationships.’ – Robert J. Waldinger
‘The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.’ – Aristotle
‘The more you are positive and say, ‘I want to have a good life,’ the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.’ – Chris Pine
‘Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.’ – Rollo May
‘A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.’ – Clive James
‘I like Aurora, ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ because she’s just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life – lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.’ – Ariana Grande
‘To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I’m getting there.’ – Thomas Brodie-Sangster
‘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.’ – Paul Bloom
‘This is our country, our water. We’re entitled to a good life. It’s a human rights issue.’ – Erin Brockovich
‘I’m a married woman. I love my husband; I have a good life.’ – Gennifer Flowers
‘I tell everybody that you haven’t lived a good life if you haven’t made a mistake.’ – Gino D’Acampo
‘I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.’ – Anthony Hopkins
‘Mellow doesn’t always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.’ – Anne Hathaway
‘Wasn’t it Emerson who said, ‘My life is for itself and not for a spectacle’? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.’ – Mary Oliver
‘Life is a rotten lottery. I’ve had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I’m thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody’s dealt a hand, and it’s not fair what you get. But you’ve got to deal with it.’ – John Waters
‘The good life is one that’s artistically made.’ – William Shatner
‘Let’s choose today to quench our thirst for the ‘good life’ we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach
‘I have an awfully good life.’ – Ann Richards
‘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.’ – Willie Mays
‘On the surface, I’ve created a good life. I’ve lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.’ – Jose Antonio Vargas
‘I consider myself really lucky to have had such a good life.’ – Nyjah Huston
‘Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.’ – Joseph Addison
‘It is saddening to see parents busy making money and their children losing out on a good life.’ – Ravi Kishan
‘As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.’ – Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
‘I enjoy the hunt much more than the ‘good life’ after the victory.’ – Carl Icahn
‘I have a very, very good life. I’m grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future.’ – Raquel Welch
‘We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren’t Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from ‘The Good Life.’ I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.’ – Bonnie Tyler
‘It is a good life. I would do it all over in a minute if I could.’ – Rudy Boesch
‘That’s a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.’ – Peter Singer
‘Just saying you are better than good won’t make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.’ – Jan Hus
‘People don’t live a good life when they take themselves too seriously, because they’re always concerned about what everybody else thinks.’ – Fabio Lanzoni
‘I’ve had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.’ – John Stamos
‘I’ve had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets.’ – Gene Wilder
‘When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.’ – Daniel Kahneman
‘People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life… Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.’ – Eddie Vedder
‘Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don’t know the Ten Commandments.’ – Richard Dawkins
‘Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.’ – Garrison Keillor
‘You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.’ – Sherman Alexie
‘I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.’ – Anthony Hopkins
‘I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I’m very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn’t change a single thing.’ – Macaulay Culkin
‘The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend.’ – Dave Brat
‘I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a good life but we did not have much money.’ – Sudha Murty
‘I like my life. I’ve had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it’s an easy burden.’ – Andrew Young
‘I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It’s been the way we always lived, and my wife’s the same way – enjoy every day and have fun.’ – Luke Bryan
‘Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn’t it, to alert us to the fact that we’re hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we’re living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.’ – Carl Honore
‘I’ve had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.’ – Maeve Binchy
‘I’ve always been spontaneous and outgoing… I’ve tried lots of things so I’ve got some good life experiences, which is great ’cause it means I’ve got lots of material to work with as an actor.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio
‘I was taught some very good life lessons and morals as a young kid growing up.’ – Israel Folau
‘My goal in life was to pursue the good life.’ – Oleg Cassini
‘My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to be able to send money home to his mom and dad and brothers and sisters. He genuinely had the intention to live a good life and to respect other people.’ – Brendon Burchard
‘I have a very good life – I’m lucky enough not to be deprived.’ – Meryl Streep
‘He’s just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John’s like that. He’s a very rare man, a very good man, and I’ve had a good life with him. I’m proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny’s fame.’ – June Carter Cash
‘Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.’ – Greta Gerwig
‘Life isn’t all me. I have a family to support. I can’t rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.’ – George Benson
‘Films were never in my budget. Didn’t occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I’ve had and I’m having as an actor. I didn’t expect the rest.’ – Peter O’Toole
‘I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.’ – Virginia Gildersleeve
‘Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.’ – Joseph Wood Krutch
‘There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.’ – Byron Dorgan
‘We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.’ – Kjell Magne Bondevik
‘I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians.’ – Traian Basescu
‘You don’t become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.’ – Kenneth Rexroth
‘I tell her all the time I’d gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it’s not the most important thing at all.’ – Nick Lachey
‘I think that Phish has been a band, we’ve all had- I’ve had a great life growing up and everybody in my band’s had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.’ – Jon Fishman
‘I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it’s kinder not to. I’m deeply into my 50s now.’ – Felicity Kendal
‘I’ve had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.’ – Michael Landon
‘To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.’ – Polykarp Kusch
‘You suffer as an actor. It’s difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.’ – Catherine Deneuve
‘I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.’ – Meg Ryan
‘I am a happy man. I’ve had a good life.’ – John Lee Hooker
‘I realize we’re not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don’t want to get on the first busload that is going.’ – Barbara Mandrell
‘My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.’ – Christopher Walken
‘It’s the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.’ – Mira Sorvino
‘You always think that 70 is the end of the road: ‘Somebody died when they were 73; good life’. You’re closer to death, and you better make sure you don’t waste too much of your time doing things you don’t want to do. No point in saying things you don’t believe in.’ – Ian Mckellen
‘Now I have a very good life and I am very proud of my work.’ – Michael Nyqvist
‘You feel like everyone hates you if you’ve got a good life, now I feel maybe it’s allowed because I’ve had my share of sadness.’ – Stella McCartney
‘I’ve been lucky enough – well, maybe unlucky enough – to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that’s good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I’ve seen a lot and I’ve had my own experiences.’ – Chris Evans
‘It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.’ – Boris Johnson
‘But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.’ – Henry Rollins
‘Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England – there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn’t abusive, it was a good life for people.’ – Damian Lewis
‘I’m in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren’t in this business, I think I would be aging differently.’ – Connie Britton
”Playboy’ made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings – not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.’ – LeRoy Neiman
‘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.’ – Peter Singer
‘I have a good life.’ – Maurice Sendak
‘If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you’ll have a good life.’ – Adam Carolla
‘I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. ‘The Killing’ was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.’ – Kristin Lehman
‘The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again – a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.’ – John Garamendi
‘I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?’ – Huey Lewis
‘I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.’ – Ben Whishaw
‘You know what, my faith is like this – when I die, I’m going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.’ – Victoria Osteen
‘My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren’t essential. It’s quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don’t have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.’ – Tamara Ecclestone
‘Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I’m proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.’ – Jon Tester
‘There’s nothing particularly dark in my past… I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.’ – Lisa Unger
‘I don’t care if I die – look, I’m old – but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.’ – Shane Smith
‘I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.’ – James Roday
‘The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.’ – Vincent Nichols
‘There’s so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.’ – Emma Forrest
‘Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.’ – Julian Baggini
‘Flourishing is everyone’s birthright. I’m trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.’ – Steve Jurvetson
‘Money and good life had never been my goal.’ – Kailash Kher
‘I’ve been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I’ve got a really, really, really good life.’ – George Clooney
‘I do happen to have a good life… But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.’ – George Clooney
‘I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.’ – Wendell Berry
‘I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.’ – Italo Calvino
‘I used to work at a school as a teacher’s assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don’t know, I think that’s a pretty good life, teaching kids.’ – Conor Oberst
‘I watch ‘Entourage.’ I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.’ – Ranbir Kapoor
‘The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary.’ – Steve Wynn
‘My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I’m supposed to do, that keeps me going.’ – Big Sean
‘I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘I embrace old age. Look, I’m never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I’ve learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I’m very fortunate, and I have my blessings.’ – Mark Wahlberg
‘Since I’ve quit drinking, I’m not sure I’ve found the good life, but I’ve certainly uncovered a better one.’ – Koren Zailckas
‘I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.’ – Aaron Paul
‘I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That’s why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in ‘The Good Life.’ She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn’t glamorous. She wasn’t clever. But she was a good partner. That’s too easy, too perfect.’ – Felicity Kendal
‘I did three of the original ‘Twilight Zone’ episodes, yes. Also, I did a little thing in the feature film, and then I wrote one of the episodes in ‘The Twilight Zone’s last round where I starred with Cloris Leachman and my daughter Liliana in a true sequel to ‘It’s a Good Life.’ So, yes, I have a good ‘Twilight Zone’ alumni jacket.’ – Bill Mumy
‘Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.’ – Henry Giroux
‘The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a joke, but a sick joke, a horror movie. But I’d rather stay involved and do what I can to make this a better place than move to the south of France and enjoy the good life.’ – James Howard Kunstler
‘As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.’ – Ahmed Zewail
‘I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.’ – Nicky Oppenheimer
‘We just have to go to that next class, read that next chapter, help that next person. You simply have to do that next good thing, and before you know it, you’re living a good life.’ – Andrew Clements
‘When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we’re up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don’t feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.’ – Paolo Bacigalupi
‘I’ve never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I’m living a good life, warts and all.’ – Michael Winter
‘The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.’ – Eugene Kennedy
‘The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one’s work, thus gaining for oneself better terms – or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial – an experience we may call ‘prospering.” – Edmund Phelps
‘I’m hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.’ – Edmund Phelps
‘Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.’ – Edmund Phelps
‘If I grew up in ‘da hood,’ it would make my story so much more interesting – if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren’t rich; they weren’t poor. I wasn’t trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.’ – Palmer Luckey
‘It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction.’ – Boris Johnson
‘When our forbears – yours and mine – came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.’ – Robert Kennedy
‘I see a lot of tech companies developing technology here and selling it abroad, but I don’t see new factories being built, and that worries me, because it means we are not creating the jobs that will guarantee a good life for Israelis.’ – Stef Wertheimer
‘I’m especially concerned about the future of this country, because I’m concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote.’ – George Takei
‘Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest – people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we’ve got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.’ – Harold Ramis
‘People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.’ – Jeanne Marie Laskas
‘We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.’ – Richard Branson
‘I love laugh lines. It means you’ve had a good life. The most beautiful women – Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Hutton, Ali MacGraw – all embraced the aging process.’ – Aerin Lauder
‘When only a minority consisting of capitalists can enjoy the good life, while the majority of workers must endure hardship, they will naturally not be able to live together in peace and harmony.’ – Sun Yat-sen
‘You can’t punch people in the face, punch people in the face, punch people in the face, and ask them to have tea and crumpets with you and think it’s all good. Life doesn’t work that way.’ – Matt Bevin
‘There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.’ – Katha Pollitt
‘I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.’ – Dakota Fanning
‘I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I’d probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.’ – Jeff Nichols
‘If you want a good life, don’t succeed at anything too early or too well. And don’t choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you’re finished.’ – Howard Jacobson
‘Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don’t lead to the good life. They delay getting it.’ – Fabrizio Moreira
‘Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they’ve got into being their own boss.’ – Fabrizio Moreira
‘If I don’t fight McGregor, I still have a good life.’ – Rafael dos Anjos
‘What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.’ – Rafael dos Anjos
‘I want to do things of significance, things that will inspire people to know how good life can be.’ – Judge Reinhold
‘If you live a good life, that seems to be what really matters. If there is something afterwards, terrific. If not, you haven’t lost anything.’ – Joe Morton
‘In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I’m learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there’s so much good that comes out of it.’ – Danny Gokey
‘I’ve been through so much. I just live each day, and whatever happens, happens. I’ve lived a very good life. My life has definitely changed, but the attitude is still the same.’ – Jim Kelly
‘I should be in an old people’s home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It’s a good life, isn’t it?’ – Anne Reid
‘The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It’s not something that I’m embarrassed of. I think it’s something people should want to aspire to.’ – Buddy Valastro
‘I grew up without any security – I obviously had lots of security because I have two parents who had a good marriage and stayed together, and we had a creative household full of ideas, but there was never any financial security. So I knew I could have a good life without that.’ – Rosamund Pike
‘I don’t have many ‘I wish I could.’ I live a pretty good life. I’m pretty psyched on my life.’ – Red Gerard
‘People assume that the smarter your home, the better your life, but in reality, technology so often gets in the way of leading a good life.’ – Joe Gebbia
‘The youngest boy in an Indian family has a good life. Growing up in a matriarchal family where my Indian mom’s culture was dominant, I experienced this first hand.’ – Andy Dunn
‘I’ve always felt that if you pay your bills and can take care of yourself without too much stress, then it’s a pretty damn good life.’ – Joe R. Lansdale
”Good Life’ was my gold-medal song and is what I sing when I need to get focused and keep calm. It also just makes me super happy, and I love jamming out.’ – Victoria Arlen
‘We all want to make money and have a good life. But if your passion is writing, and you want to write a novel, I don’t think you should sit in your home and wait for someone to give you the opportunity. You write it.’ – Salim Akil
‘I have such a good life. It’s something I couldn’t have imagined in my wildest dreams.’ – Mary Gauthier
‘When I came to Cambridge, I was involved in the ward for a little bit, but I did have a very gradual process of trying to work out what I thought a good life consisted of.’ – Tara Westover
‘There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good – for the self, for those we love, for ‘our neighbor,’ for our earth.’ – Maryanne Wolf
‘I know that everyone has their own ideas about what the good life is, and hip hop has especially strong ideas about it. It’s been the same old thing for years and years: a bunch of females around you, nice cars and money. I wanted people to know what the good life actually is and challenge a lot of the lies that we’re told.’ – Trip Lee
‘I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say – a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.’ – Trip Lee
‘I know, when I was growing up, a lot of the views I was listening to, it was a worldview that was not helpful. The world even sold me a false idea of what the good life was, and I wish that people would have helped me to think better about how to interact with that worldview.’ – Trip Lee
‘I’m a good person. I’ve led a good life.’ – Brett Kavanaugh
‘The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.’ – Paul Allen
‘Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.’ – Robert Nozick
‘There are good life skills to be had in the sport. It is a big positive to see young kids coming to the gym, training hard, looking up to the likes of David Tua, Shane Cameron, and possibly myself.’ – Joseph Parker
‘It’s important to look at what you do have, not what you don’t. I’m one of those people who wants a good life, so I do my best to snap out of it.’ – Alesha Dixon
‘I’ve become bored of being insecure, ashamed, scared… no one should feel like that about themselves, especially when there is so much good life to live.’ – Keiynan Lonsdale
‘I am not so old, but when I started out, we had none of this. We did not have the need to show the things we do and the good life we lead. That is dangerous. Social networks can be very positive because it’s a great vehicle to communicate, but perhaps things need to be done in a different way.’ – Juan Mata
‘Carla Lane’s ‘Butterflies’ seemed to be on in our house at all times when I was a kid, as did ‘The Good Life.’ But it was ‘Fawlty Towers that made me really sit up for the first time. Basil’s incandescent rage made me howl.’ – Greg Davies
‘I just feel that if you’re going to have kids, you need to believe that, emotionally, you can give them a really good life.’ – Jane Fallon
‘My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!’ – Ben Miller
‘My story is how to have a life while dealing with mental illness, and I’ve had a life. I’ve been blessed. It’s been a different kind of life than what I planned on, but it’s been a good life nonetheless.’ – Beth Hart
‘It’s been really stressful being on the road a lot, especially when you’re a dad. You miss your son a lot. But you gotta make it work because you get to live a good life. I have to sacrifice.’ – Jo Koy
‘I always think about when I was a kid, and I didn’t have anything, and now I get to see my son live a good life.’ – Jo Koy
‘I try and focus on the youth coming up, and I think tennis is a great sport regardless of how far you make it: just, obviously, a lot of good life lessons.’ – Kevin Anderson
‘There is this preconceived idea that I would follow the likes of Michael Owen, Jamie Carragher, and Gary into the media because it’s a really good life. But football is my life.’ – Phil Neville
‘Road racing has given me a good life, and I’m not being cocky, but I’ve brought something to racing, too.’ – Guy Martin
‘I never take for granted how great Australia is and how well I have been treated here, so thank you for this chance at making a good life.’ – Jimmy Barnes
‘People shouldn’t choose their careers on whether it’s cool or not. They should choose their careers on, ‘Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?” – Deborah Meaden
‘You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good life and playing football over Christmas is not the worst thing in the world.’ – Mark Noble
‘We had two children, who are still adored, they adore me and we’re very close. Rayne was 20 years older than me. He died when he was 80, so he had a really good life.’ – Prue Leith
‘You get drafted by an NHL team, you’re kind of living the good life. So, I mean for me, it’s all awesome.’ – Jack Hughes
‘We had a pretty good life, growing up in Taiwan, and I think my dad really made a concerted effort to say hey, we’re going to take a chance and go halfway around the world so that my kids can have more opportunities.’ – Justin Lin
‘My mother made me believe in reincarnation, in karma. If I live a good life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a higher being. If I live a bad life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a lower being.’ – John Barnes
‘We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.’ – James Cleverly
‘I got a GED when I was 21 and it doesn’t mean anything to me now. I’m still a high school dropout and I like the fact that I’ve had a good life without that.’ – Jim Norton
‘We tell people to go to college, but when they cross the stage, they cross the stage with a degree in one hand and debt in the other that stifles their ability to be able to live that good life.’ – Nina Turner
‘You would think people who call themselves pro-life would want to make sure that our children are educated, that people could work and live a good life, that you can take a vacation every now and then.’ – Nina Turner
‘It would be nice to say I won seven world titles, yet I want a good life as well while I play.’ – Judd Trump
‘If I can’t give back to the society, then this isn’t a good life I am leading.’ – Sonu Sood
‘If you’d said to me when I was 21, ‘You’re going to get into parliament, be a senior minister of state, shadow health secretary, shadow home secretary, a privy councillor, be endorsed by the Times as a candidate for Speaker, have four novels published, and then have great fun after you retire,’ I’d have said, ‘That sounds like a good life.” – Ann Widdecombe
‘But I think most importantly, we need to realize that not everyone is privileged or born into a good life, stable homes or a home, period.’ – Kyle Carpenter
‘Racing is my passion and I’ve been able to have a good life anyway. I’ve been able to travel the world, so I’m not complaining.’ – Michelle Payne
‘Having small children, you start thinking about how everything in your life revolves around doing the best you can for this little being, trying to make a good life for that person.’ – Chris Thile
‘Having a brain type aneurism, a brain bleed, really put things in perspective of what a good life and being a good person is really about.’ – Ricky Steamboat
‘It would have been easy to stay at Barca, appear in the team photo, keep winning titles and earning money. I had a good life, but I felt I should leave. My life was comfortable off the pitch, but I wanted to keep playing.’ – Pedro
‘I’m not greedy – I have a pretty good life. I don’t have an expensive lifestyle, so I can make my living teaching classes at my gym.’ – Glover Teixeira
‘Everything in life requires a bit of faith, but for me it is knowing what is going on inside my head, inside my soul, and in both our personal lives and professional lives, we need to know how we are, to be able to have a good life.’ – Rui Patricio
‘I have a good life… I wouldn’t jeopardize the good life that we worked so hard to get.’ – Ahmad Balshe
‘All the pain I had, it was not worth it. My ankle created so many problems, it affected my day-to-day living. But at that time football was my whole life. Now I am older, I have had a life without football. You can still have a good life – there is more than football.’ – Marco van Basten
‘Regardless of age, no one knows our children better than we do. So with having a child comes the responsibility of making every effort to support, protect, and give them the education they need to make good life choices.’ – Cynthia Bailey
‘I come from the bottom of the social ladder and now I have a good life.’ – Hulk
‘I have a pretty good life. I dont dwell in the past, that is dangerous. I have no regrets and try to learn from my mistakes.’ – Tony Hadley
‘In Iran, we had a really good life. Everything is good. Iran is considered, I think, a Third World country. I don’t know what it is considered but it’s not considered to be up there.’ – Beneil Dariush
‘I’ve had a very good life.’ – Seve Ballesteros
‘Before I would be in full tennis mode. Now, I have to find the balance to see my daughter also, otherwise it’s not a good life, I would say! I’m trying. I think I’m doing well, but I’m always trying to find this balance.’ – Daniil Medvedev