Art Of Living Quotes

• Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

  Jim Rohn

  Art, Lifestyle, Masters

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 28, 2012

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• The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Life Lesson, Learning

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• The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dream, Art, Maturity

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• Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  Booker T. Washington

  Art, Caring, Volunteer

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• The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Retirement, Nursing

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Life, Art, Each Day

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• The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we are able to take the next step with trust that we will have enough light for the step that follows, we can walk through life with joy and be surprised at how far we go.

  Henri Nouwen

  Art, Dark, Light

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Living well is the best revenge.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.308

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• The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Good Life, Acceptance

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• A good half of the art of living is resilience.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Resilience, Half

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• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Art, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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• The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

  Laura Huxley

  Art, Intelligent, Creative

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• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Art, Humorous, Light

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.40, Beacon Press

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• The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Unique, Past

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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• The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.

  Alexander Schindler

  Letting Go, Art, Knows

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• This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Spring, Writing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.276, Ballantine Books

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• However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!

  Narendra Modi

  Art, Technology, Thinking

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• The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

  Joe Biden

  Life, Art, Knocked Down

  Joe Biden (2007). “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”, p.22, Random House

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• The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Art, Brother

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Time, Art

  Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.154, Soho Press

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• Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Peace, People

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