- Feeling Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a herd instinct, and every time that people hear an announcement such as PayPal's in Dundalk, they start thinking, 'Ireland must be good if they're investing there', and by extension, 'Dundalk must be good, so let's have a look at it.'
- Duty
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
- Good Relationships
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
- Positive
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
- Optimism
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.
- Long
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
- Knowledge
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My fiancee's average size, and my son's average size, so I don't want to alter my whole house, because the resale won't be very good unless we sell it to another little person.
- Laugh
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.
- Make
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to make people laugh.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.
- Play
- |
- Nov 07, 2020