Art Of Living Quotes

“Life is like a game of chess.
To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT
and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
acculated along the way.

We become each and every piece within the game called life!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge

“Life is like a sandwich!

Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you put in-between
the slices is up to you.

Is your sandwich tasty or sour?
Allan Rufus.org”
― Allan Rufus

“Me? I haven't made all A's in the art of living. But I give a damn. And I'll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“To live well is to live without answers.”
― Abhaidev, The Meaninglessness of Meaning

“To live well is to live without answers”
― Abhaidev, The Meaninglessness of Meaning

“While holding desire to walk together with someone, one must possess the art and aptitude of walking together.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.”
― Pawan Mishra

“Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living.”
― H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

“In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.”
― Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

“As with all semantic difficulties, the answer can only be arbitrary. What matters is that we know what kind of union we are talking about when we speak of love. Do we refer to love as the mature answer to the problem of existence, or do we speak of those immature forms of love which may be called symbiotic union?”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“The whole art of living is to use the people who make us suffer simply as steps enabling us to obtain access to their divine form and thus joyfully to people our lives with divinities.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“The more skilful you are in creating the perfect environment for yourself, the more you will enjoy life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Faith and breath are inevitable for life”
― Dido Stargaze

“If you know the art of finding beauty on a fairly empty street, enjoying the rain while walking home at night, and a child's smile is all it takes to believe in humanity, then you know the art of life.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the intelligent use of imagination.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

“In [Arnold Bennett] I increasingly come to recognize a man whose stance is very much akin currently to my own and who serves to validate it: that is to say, a man for whom a far-reaching lack of illusion and a fundamental mistrust of where the world is going lead neither to moral fanaticism nor to embitterment but to an extremely cunning, clever, and subtle art of living. This leads him to wrest from his own misfortune the chances, and from his own wickedness the few respectable ways to conduct himself, that amount to a human life.”
― Walter Benjamin

“Jealousy is but a manifestation of artha’s corruptive influence on man which in due course became the insurmountable hurdle for him on the path of moksha. It is in man’s power to curtail it to manage his passage to moksha. One needs only to understand the physics of jealousy to appreciate the chemistry of its affects on human nature.”
― B.S. Murthy, Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life

“Schizophrenia means difficulty in comprehending Reality”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“The art of living lies in capping opportunities and not whining over problems.”
― B.S. Murthy, Benign Flame: Saga of Love

“There's no point of living without the pleasure of living”
― BS Murthy

“The art of living lies in balancing the acts of life”
― B.S. Murthy

“It's very easy to find happiness. Just grab a bottle of your favorite drink, devour foods that give you so much comfort and stress-relief, go for a run (happy hormones), or watch an NBA championship game at ringside! It's as instant as microwaveable foods! But joy is a different thing. Joy takes time to build, but it's worth the time. And one of the best ways to find joy in life is by discovering and living out our purpose - the reason why we've been put on this Earth! There's something about being in one's purpose and living it out.”
― Alan Daron, Ikigai: The Japanese Life Philosophy

“The right lesson in the art of living begins with a chapter of death.”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“Spiritual growth begins when we feel satisfied with our life.”
― Vinaya

“The art of living is found in the pages of the books we cherish.”
― Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda

“The tranquility of life lies in being fair to oneself and the others as well in the same vein”
― B.S. Murthy

“The art of living lies in balancing the acts of life”
― BS Murthy

“Given extensive leisure, what do not the Chinese do? They eat crabs, drink tea, taste spring water, sing operatic airs, fly kites, play shuttle-cock, match grass blades, make paper boxes, solve complicated wire puzzles, play mahjong, gamble and pawn clothing, stew ginseng, watch cock-fights, romp with their children, water flowers, plant vegetables, graft fruits, play chess, take baths, hold conversations, keep cage-birds, take afternoon naps, have three meals in one, guess fingers, play at palmistry, gossip about fox spirits, go to operas, beat drums and gongs, play the flute, practise on calligraphy, munch duck-gizzards, salt carrots, fondle walnuts, fly eagles, feed carrier-pigeons, quarrel with their tailors, go on pilgrimages, visit temples, climb mountains, watch boatraces, hold bullfights, take aphrodisiacs, smoke opium, gather at street corners, shout at aeroplanes, fulminate against the Japanese, wonder at the white people, criticize their politicians, read Buddhist classics, practise deep-breathing, hold Buddhist séances, consult fortune-tellers, catch crickets, eat melon seeds, gamble for moon-cakes, hold lantern competitions, burn rare incense, eat noodles, solve literary riddles, train pot-flowers, send one another birthday presents, kow-tow to one another, produce children, and sleep.”
― Lin Yutang

“There’s no mistaking the standard of living with the quality of life.”
― B.S. Murthy