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We want to raise the art of living well. -- Robert Mondavi
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. -- Marcus Aurelius
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. -- Epicurus
Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with. -- Julius Gordon
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. -- Cesare Pavese
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. -- Bernard Baruch
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. -- Eric Hoffer
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. -- Havelock Ellis
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. -- Sydney J. Harris
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. -- Herman Melville
I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself. -- Laurance Rockefeller
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living. -- Philippe Petit
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. -- George H. Mead
Teach the art of living well. -- Seneca the Younger
Philosophy is the art of living. -- Plutarch
Selfless giving is the art of living. -- Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving is the art of living. -- Frederick Lenz
because everybody lies. It's part of living in society . -- Nicholas Sparks
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? -- Anne Frank
Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable. -- Breyten Breytenbach
Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living. -- Alexandra Stoddard
A good half of the art of living is resilience. -- Alain de Botton
Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping. -- S. N. Goenka
The true masters of the art of living are already happy... -- Jean Anouilh
The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together! -- William Lyon Phelps
People who want to be amused have lost the art of living. -- Holbrook Jackson
The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down. -- Joe Biden
Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself. -- Helen Cam
The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well. -- Wilferd Peterson
The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together. -- Tom Hodgkinson
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves. -- Eugene H. Peterson
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play. -- L. P. Jacks
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. -- Bernard Baruch
The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire. -- Doris Lessing
When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living. -- Jon Mead
Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand. -- Samuel Goldwyn
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living. -- Bertolt Brecht
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. -- Roger Zelazny
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living." -- Bertolt Brecht
The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing. -- E. F. Schumacher
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. -- Albert Einstein
The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way. -- Laura Huxley
only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living. -- Jacqueline Winspear
Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. -- Julian Jaynes
One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment. -- S. N. Goenka
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. -- Henry Taylor
The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. -- Henri Nouwen
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better. -- Richard Ford
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life. -- Eckhart Tolle
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
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
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
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
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
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. -- George H. Mead
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. -- Aristotle
I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living. -- Donna Air
As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose. -- Susan L. Taylor
The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument. -- Gerry Spence
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
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. -- Machado de Assis
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
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition. -- Brian D. McLaren
The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you. -- John Assaraf
Hebrew word for charity tzedakah, simply means justice and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life. -- Peter Singer
Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life. -- Peter Singer
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
Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference. -- Ann Landers
You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person. -- Hillary Clinton
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
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement-the art of living. -- H. E Davey
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
I got to have about 15 minutes with Michelle Obama, and that was a big deal because you're like, 'Wow, I'm part of living history.' You know? I definitely think she could take me in an arm wrestling match. -- Ross Mathews
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
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
If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil. -- Julian Baggini
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.
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play. -- Penelope Leach
The moment you let all your guards down, when you start believing again, when you accept that being vulnerable is part of living this darling is when life really begins. Welcome to life, where bad things can happen but is still better than nothing. -- Kat Romero
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things that are 'educational.' The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play. -- Penelope Leach
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
Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still. -- Terry Pratchett
All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
The moment you let all your guards down, the moment you start loving again, the moment you accept that being vulnerable is a part of living, this Darling is when life really begins. Welcome to life, where bad things can happen but is still better than nothing. -- Kat Romero
Yoga is an art and science of living. -- Indra Devi
Art is not living. It is the use of living. -- Audre Lorde
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. -- bell hooks
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. -- John Ruskin
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. -- Robert Henri
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. -- Charles Ives
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. -- Lewis Mumford
Living together is an art. -- William Pickens
Yoga is the art and science of living. -- Indra Devi
Art too is just a way of living. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
There exists no more difficult art than living. -- Seneca the Younger
Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Living well is an art that can be developed. -- Maya Angelou
Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder. -- Kenneth G. Mills
Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo. -- Stephane Rolland
I want to be a living work of art -- Luisa Casati
Art is only art if it is synonymous with living -- Alexander Girard
To make living itself an art, that is the goal. -- Henry Miller
Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art. -- Ming-Dao Deng
Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence. -- Ken Danby
It's all in the art. You get no credit for living. -- V. S. Pritchett
The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely. -- Allan Lokos
Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art. -- Wes Fesler
For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. -- Miuccia Prada
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. -- Clara Schumann
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art. -- Brian Eno
What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. -- Rebecca West

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