Art Of Living Quotes - Page 4

• The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Together, Art Is

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.115, Read Books Ltd

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• There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

  Roger Zelazny

  Art, Mean, Civilization

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• I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Reading, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Fall, Wrestling

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• The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  Bernard Baruch

  Encouraging, Meaningful, Courage

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• The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

  Henry Taylor

  Funny, Inspiring, Art

  Sir Henry Taylor (1847). “Notes from Life, in six essays”, p.12

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• None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  Bernard Baruch

  Art, Disappointment, Lying

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• We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Beauty, Art, Fire

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• Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That`s why I am talking about this Hasidic approach. The whole approach consists of methods, ways and means of how to die - the art of dying is the art of living also. Dying as an ego is being born as a non `ego; dying as a part is being born as a whole; dying as man is a basic step towards being born as a God.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Mean, Men

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• Meditation is the art of living with yourself. It is nothing else than that, simply that: the art of being joyously alone. A meditator can sit joyously alone for months, for years. He does not hanker for the other, because his own inner ecstasy is so much, is so overpowering, that who bothers about the other?

  Rajneesh

  Art, Years, Meditation

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• We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Science, Psychology

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• The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Country, Art

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• Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Art

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• The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

  Roland Barthes

  Art, Progress, Doe

  Roland Barthes (1994). “Roland Barthes”

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• Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Basketball, Art, Athlete

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.115, Ballantine Books

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• When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and think critically -- they can be easily manipulated by fear and propaganda. A democracy is only as wise as its citizens, and a democracy of ignorant citizens can be as dangerous as a dictatorship.

  Paul K. Chappell

  Wise, Art, Thinking

  Dr Paul Chappell, Dr, Paul K. Chappell (2013). “Peaceful Revolution: How We can Create the Future Needed for Humanity's Survival”, p.38, Easton Studio Press LLC

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• The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Art, Lying

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• The art of living deliberately is the art of examining this vast storehouse of beliefs, dropping the out-moded ones, consciously choosing those that serve your goals, and carefully crafting new ones in greatest alignment with your desires.

  Sir Richard Bishop

  Life, Art, Goal

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• To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
  To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
  To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
  To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Love, Art, Life Lesson

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• To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Art, Gay

  "From Grandmother with Love". Book by Becky Kelly and Patrick Regan, 2005.

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• The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

  Jean Anouilh

  Gratitude, Art, Masters

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• Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

  Pierre Hadot

  Art, Philosophy, Jargon

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.

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• Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Men, Literature

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• When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

  Jon Mead

  Art, Giving, Return

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• To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

  Joe Biden

  Moving On, Wise, Art

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

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