He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.
To breathe properly is to live properly.
What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.
No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.
In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
The homeless have a right to a proper living area of their own, too, and we have begged for the public’s comprehension.
If you do it properly, life is art, really.
