Avicenna Quotes

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

One must live well to know what living is.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

A long life is a life well spent.

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

A good life is a main argument.

You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.

It's how you live that really counts

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.