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The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE! — Craig Benzine

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. — Meryl Streep

When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it. — Dianna Agron

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days. — Ari Kiev

Second, to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong from it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. — P.G. Wodehouse

What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh? — Bartolomeo D'Alviano

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

Pleasure is a good thing. But it is the dessert of life, not the meal. — Dan Baker

Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them. — Chip Conley

Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice. Rinpoche — Daniel Prokop

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff. — Fuzzy Zoeller

A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends. — Todd Stocker

Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks. — Maria V. Snyder

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past. — Carew Papritz

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward. — Susan Andersen

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. — Fran Lebowitz

I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not. — Bob Dylan

It's realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory. The dream can be had by anyone. The memory - must be made. — Eric Thomas

It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

And what have you been up to? she asked.
Oh, I don't know really, I said. Not much. Learning how to be a good loser. — Miriam Toews

Life is a series of choices that we make, some of them are good, and some of them are not, but everything always works out in the end. — Micalea Smeltzer

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much. — Dennis Quaid

A philosopher is a mathematician, who might not be good at solving mathematical problems but knows 'which one' to solve and 'why' to solve it... — Victor Ghoshe

The act of wishing someone a good life even if it means us not being a part of it is the purest act of love. To know what is best for someone. — Monique Gold

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille. — Anthony Hopkins

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions. — Julian Baggini

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's. — Seneca The Younger

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets. — Seth Godin

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life. — Drew Barrymore

It's good to stand in life and not sit,when you stand you get a better view — Marcelle Hinkson

We must not only aim to make a living but to live life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty. — Sophie Swetchine

He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989. — Michael Chabon

Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is not a good indication to pursue your dreams. — Euginia Herlihy

Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end. — Atul Gawande

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. — Don Herold

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 feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that. — Baz Luhrmann

Pride and resentment do not create bread that will rise. Bread, like a good life, can only be created by honest measure, patience, warmth, and time. — Lisa Wingate

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it. — Charles Lamb

It is easier to live a lie in peace than to die for the truth. As long as life is good, most of them simply do not care. — Ryk Brown

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking. — Timothy Keller

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. — Michael Eisner

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. — Vivienne Westwood

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force. — Cameron Dokey

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance. — Josephine Hart

We dreamed a lot of good stuff. Marriage and forever and ever and that kind of thing. It meant everything to me. Not just a lot. Everything. — Walter Dean Myers

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility — Mohamed Mohamed Adel

A barrage of words does not make the soul happy, but a good life gladdens the mind and a pure conscience generates a bountiful confidence in God. — Thomas A Kempis

The goal of a life is not to provide material for good stories. — Tim Kreider

But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer. — Isabel Huggan

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous ... and not in a good way. — Mark Hart

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. — Benjamin Franklin

Are you considering the other person you're calling when you call? Do you ask if it is a good time? If not, why not? — Loren Weisman

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing. — Barry Sternlicht

In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I'm not a heartbreaker. — Johnathon Schaech

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family. — Wendy Davis

Life is ridiculous, so why not be a good guy?" That may be the only religion I have to this day. — Judd Apatow

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay. — Serina Hartwell

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. — John Steinbeck

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. — Mark Twain

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest. — George Eliot

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

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share. — Charlaine Harris

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

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know? — Chuck Palahniuk

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter. — Charles Spurgeon

If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person. — Shannon L. Alder

I couldn't help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I'd had it off and on my entire life. — Drew Nellins Smith

He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning. — Jean-Pierre Camus

Life is not like a box of chocolates, because unlike life, chocolate is good. — Ayah

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods. — Socrates

An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year, says Zoroaster. — Voltaire

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. — Marcus Aurelius

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping. — Khem Veasna

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life ... When you stop moving, you're done. — Georges St-Pierre

If it feels good saying it. It's probably not a good thing to say. — Tim Kirkland

As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is. — Seneca.

Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better. — Olivia Wilde

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me. — Bat For Lashes

Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. — Chuck Palahniuk

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60. — Zubin Mehta

Fruit does not make a tree good. Fruit does not give life. Fruit is a sign of life and reality. — John Piper

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. — Neil Gaiman

This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life ... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love ... does not conquer all. — George Huang

The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good. — Tony Robbins

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. — Seneca.

Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you've led. — Diana Quick

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need. — George Foreman

Runnin's not a bad thing, sir, so long as you're runnin' towards somethin' good. — Jonathan Auxier

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life. — Lauren Hutton

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life. — Joyce Meyer

If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing. — Leontyne Price

Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life. — Shawn Johnson

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. — Oscar Wilde

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying. — June Jordan

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