Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

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

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.

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

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

It matters not how long we live but how.

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.

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

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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?

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

Life well spent is long.

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

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

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

One must live well to know what living is.

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

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

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

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.