Mira Sorvino Quotes

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

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

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a joke, but a sick joke, a horror movie. But I'd rather stay involved and do what I can to make this a better place than move to the south of France and enjoy the good life.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.