Thomas a Kempis Quotes

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

A long life is a life well spent.

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.

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

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

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

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

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

Life well spent is long.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

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

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

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

It matters not how long we live but how.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

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