Art of living Quotes

“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.”

“The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.”

“The French have a term for this brazenness: je m’en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.”

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

“Survival requires a dose of madness—what cynics call “hoping against hope”—just like art does; you conjure your future from white space, locate the hidden person, yourself, against this unfamiliar background, peering through grief and loss at something greater. “Survivors are more urgently rooted in life than most of us,” observed one Holocaust expert. “Their will to survive is one with the thrust of life itself, as stubborn as the upsurge of spring. A strange exultation fills [their] soul, a sense of being equal to the worst.”

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”

“The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.”

“Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.”

“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”