Quotes of: Good-life Keyword

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual ex...

The Jail Notebook And Other Writings

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the pathways of life and the nature of history. ... May our poor and improbable species find joy in its new-found fragility and good fortu...

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil...

L.R. Knost

The ending shouldn't determine the meaning of anything, a story or a life. Logically, I don't think it can--didn't Heidegger say something to that effect? That the meaning of all our moments cannot be contingent upon an end-point over which we have n...

Stevenson Alexa

Ernst Janning: We have fallen on happy times, Herr Hahn. In old times it would have made your day if I'd deigned to say good morning to you. Now that we are here in this place together... you feel obliged to tell me what to do with my life... Listen ...

Judgment at Nuremberg

If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cann...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Common goods, no goods.

Dutch

I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.

Jessi Colter

These scientific studies countervail the influential claims of the Kants, Nietzsches, and Rands about the nature of human goodness. Compassion is not a blind emotions that catapults people pell-mell toward the next warm body that walks by. Instead, c...

Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively re-polishing lines and paragraphs with a jeweler's precision. But it was not good eno...

Shadows 7

But what slayed Robert was that for all these years, all his adult life, he'd never believed in relationships and commitment. They were highly overrated as far as he was concerned. Some people's entire lives revolved around love...finding it, keeping...

Satisfaction

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. It is not to lead our neighbor into a corner where ther...

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.

The Confessions of a Misfit

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.

Enough About Love

...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...

A Familiar Rain

I don't buy 'regret' idea. I need life's good lesson.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.

Bel-Ami

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Alvar Aalto

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

Ben Elliot

It is good to have a dream, as long as the dream does not have you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life