Top 100 The Art Of Living Quotes
#1. The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Life is a collection of experiences. To experience each moment fully and accept it is an art. The art of living gracefully and never growing 'old'.
Rashmi Bansal
#8. If my fellow Americans could adopt even a fraction of the French attitude about food and life (don't worry, you don't have to sign on to the politics, too), managing weight would cease to be a terror, an obsession, and reveal its true nature as part of the art of living.
Mireille Guiliano
#9. First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.
Paul Klee
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Henry Taylor
#15. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
#16. 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
#17. ...among whom the art of living well and getting the most out of life at a moderate expense has been attained to a very high degree.
Maria Gentile
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#24. Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
Eugene H. Peterson
#25. The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
E.F. Schumacher
#26. Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living.
Nancy Mitford
#27. 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
#28. The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.
Timothy Ferriss
#29. He who is discontented with what he has, and with what has been granted to him by fortune, is one who is ignorant of the art of living, but he who bears that in a noble spirit, and makes reasonable use of all that comes from it, deserves to be regarded as a good man.
Epictetus
#30. 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
#31. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
#32. The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.
Henri Nouwen
#33. All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
Bertolt Brecht
#34. One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.
S. N. Goenka
#35. Only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.
Jacqueline Winspear
#36. To live in high spirits but not recklessly, to be lighthearted without swaggering or rampaging, to show trust and truthfulness but not unconditionally and not naively, and to face uncertainty with imagination instead of fatalism - this is the art of living.
David A. Nyberg
#37. And do not forget that the blood of rebellion flows through your veins, that around your soul meanders the river of perfection; above all stay devoted to your art - even if it is only the art of living! - above all remain loyal to it.
Philippe Petit
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Maturity implies otherness ... The art of living is the art of living with.
Julius Gordon
#43. Learn the art of living. Make your life as an ageless art, then you will never grow older.
Debasish Mridha
#44. 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
#45. The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.
Laura Huxley
#46. 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
#49. When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.
Jon Mead
#50. 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.
#52. 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
#54. The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer
#55. He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.
Dorothy Dunnett
#56. Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes
#57. To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
Joe Biden
#58. Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand.
Samuel Goldwyn
#60. 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
#61. The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
Albert Einstein
#62. 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
#65. Always be alert, never get hooked into anything negative. Many people go on studying negative things; their energies are simply wasted. There is no art of dying. Or, the art of living is the art of dying. Live!
Osho
#66. There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
Roger Zelazny
#67. The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard Baruch
#68. Philosophy is the art of living.
Plutarch
#70. The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
Doris Lessing
#71. Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
Epictetus
#72. Civilisation is the art of living in contact with other persons with the minimum of discomfort.
Nanamoli Thera
#73. 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
#74. You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#75. If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living.
Girdhar Joshi
#76. Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
S. N. Goenka
#77. The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
Tom Hodgkinson
#78. I cannot help thinking that the death of the young is not in the plan of our being, and that we are ourselves greatly responsible for it. Indeed I believe we are at the beginning only of the art of living.
Georgiana Burne-Jones
#79. The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
Anne Frank
#80. The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus
#81. The true masters of the art of living are already happy ...
Jean Anouilh
#82. Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.
Helen Cam
#83. The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese
#84. 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 W. Watts
#85. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.
Edward Ruscha
#86. I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you ... " and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability.
C. JoyBell C.
#87. Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.
David Finckel
#88. That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
Anita Loos
#89. If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.
David Deida
#90. A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws.
Dean Koontz
#91. Art is meant to provoke emotions, Avery. Its sole purpose is to arouse our senses, even if it disturbs. Even if it's ugly. Even if it fucking scares the living shit out of you.
Lara Adrian
#92. When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated
Sun Tzu
#93. I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
Len Wein
#94. Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
Albert Camus
#95. The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.
Klaus Nomi
#96. Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
Arne Glimcher
#97. The novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.
Ellen Glasgow
#98. What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.
Rebecca West
#99. Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Boris Pasternak
#100. As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.
Dan Groat
