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  • One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

    Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.115, Ballantine Books
  • Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

    Art   Drinking   Reality  
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.178
  • Living well is the best revenge.

    George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.308
  • The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

    Life   Art   Each Day  
  • The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

    Art   Fall   Wrestling  
  • The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

    Life   Art   Inspire  
  • The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

    Art   Unique   Past  
    Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage
  • 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.

    Art   Lessons   Als  
    "Everyday wisdom" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2008.
  • Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

    Art   People   Ninety  
  • The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

  • The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

    Art   Knowing   Made  
    Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”
  • We want to raise the art of living well.

    Art   Want   Economy  
  • People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

    Art   People   Want  
  • 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.

    Art   Lying   Believe  
    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.71, Transaction Publishers
  • The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

    Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company
  • Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

    Art   Philosophy   Jargon  
    "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.
  • The art of living deliberately is the art of examining this vast storehouse of beliefs, dropping the out-moded ones, consciously choosing those that serve your goals, and carefully crafting new ones in greatest alignment with your desires.

    Life   Art   Goal  
  • We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

  • The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.120, Beacon Press
  • The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  • The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

    Life   Art   Lying  
    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.71, Transaction Publishers
  • The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

    Art   Loss   Past  
  • Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

    Art   Peace   People  
  • Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and the instinct to multiply. Nourishment and sex give us a great sense of pleasure. Having the wisdom to satisfy both desires—for food and sex—is the art of living well. I truly believe that this wisdom lies within us all.

    Art   Sex   Powerful  
    Ori Hofmekler (2009). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.182, North Atlantic Books
  • You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

  • Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

    Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.115, Ballantine Books
  • Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

    Art   Civilization   Doe  
  • The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we are able to take the next step with trust that we will have enough light for the step that follows, we can walk through life with joy and be surprised at how far we go.

    Art   Dark   Light  
    Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

    Art   Spring   Writing  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.276, Ballantine Books
  • Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

    Art   Caring   Volunteer  
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