Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire"
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Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"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."
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell."
Timothy Keller
Pastor, Author
"The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice."
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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
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"But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime."
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"Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way."
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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
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"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."
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"Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen."
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"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."
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"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."
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"If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back."
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"We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life."
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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
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"The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture."
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"Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be."
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"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."
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"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."
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"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."
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"No pressure, no diamonds."
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"Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material possessions. On the other hand, people who work hard and struggle and suffer much are the victims of greed and indifference, losers. This insane reversal of values presses heavily on the Black community. The causes originate from outside and are imposed by a system that ruthlessly seeks its own rewards, no matter what the cost in wrecked human lives."
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"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
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"There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself."
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