The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.
Living well is an art that can be developed.
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.
The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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.
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.
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.
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!
Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
The true masters of the art of living are already happy.
Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they breathe and they exist, they know how to enjoy. That is sheer stupidity. Enjoyment is a great art, it is a great discipline. It is as subtle a discipline as music or poetry or painting. It is the greatest creativity.
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization.
But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.
Life is the art of being well deceived.
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
