“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.”

“Do you know what a good life is? A good life is a life in which you never have to think about yourself again. You know why? Because you can't think about yourself without producing fear.”

Guy Finley (1949) American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician

“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

“Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

“You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

“Life is good when you have a good sandwich.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician

“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”

Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk

“The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“If you are good life is good.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda