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Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. -- Mohsin Hamid
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. -- Dennis Prager
I can't give a decent toast to save my life. -- Sam Trammell
Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life. -- Joe Biden
We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap. -- Ken Buck
I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently. -- Larry David
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. -- Angela Davis
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor? -- Mayer Hawthorne
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life. -- Majora Carter
Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else. -- Eminem
You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life. -- Ruth Reichl
I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded. -- Robert Boswell
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life. -- Tawakkol Karman
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind. -- Frederik Pohl
I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so. -- Jeff Merkley
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies. -- Che Guevara
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . . -- Nelson Mandela
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly. -- Carlos Santana
don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I'm not sure if I've learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you're kind to people, everything gets easier. Being a decent person really smoothes the way for you and everyone else. -- Alan Arkin
Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control. -- Wendy Davis
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do. -- Jerry Kramer
If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us, -- James Nesbitt
It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death ... -- Temple Grandin
I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. -- Temple Grandin
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. -- Martin McDonagh
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people. -- Robert Higgs
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat. -- Hunter S. Thompson
These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to change the situation for the animals. Farm animals are providing us with the food to stay alive, so I think we really owe them a decent life while they are alive. -- Jan Cameron
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving. -- Peter Singer
The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being. -- John Holdren
For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life. -- Barry Commoner
There are so many things in my life that would be completely not on within the conservative church. And yet I think of myself as a reasonably decent human being. With all sorts of flaws, you know, but still reasonably decent. If I did believe in Heaven and Hell, I would really, honestly, believe I was going to go to Heaven. -- Miriam Toews
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size. -- Jodi Picoult
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation...Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being. -- John Holdren
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world. -- Salman Rushdie
What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf, which means to succeed there has to be a partner. And the definition of partnership is someone willing to risk their lives in their home area to prevail because they think it's necessary to build a decent life and a better life for their people. -- William J. Clinton
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. -- Timothy Keller
To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person. -- Noam Chomsky
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. -- Dan Simmons
I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches -- R.K. Lilley
A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin. -- Steven J. Carroll
So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character. -- Edward Zigler
Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones? -- Jenny Han
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You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell. -- Bear Grylls
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life. -- Timothy Keller
If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life. -- Jeremy Piven
If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life. -- Amit Kalantri
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it. -- Frank Herbert
I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf. -- Liz Carpenter
I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home. -- Alexandra Robbins
Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food. -- David Letterman
I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so. -- Jeff Merkley
Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life. -- Ricky Gervais
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible. -- E. O. Wilson
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible. -- E. O. Wilson
Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path. -- Sha Zukang

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