Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

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

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).

But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

When we think good thoughts and choose the actions that make us feel good, Life provides us with all the evidence we need that we are loved and cared for.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.

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.

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

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.

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

I got married recently. So far, so good. Less sex than I expected, but other than that, it's a pretty good lifestyle.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. I became sort of aware. I used to get so angry.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.

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.

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it.  In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have.

Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

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

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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