#living

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

In music, one does not make the end of a composition the point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played the quickest.

A life devoted solely to accumulation is a life lived in exile from the spirit.

Not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued; and a good life is equivalent to a just and honorable life.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, yet everyone thinks himself qualified for the hardest of all trades—that of living well.

For one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one sunny day; and so too one day or a short time does not make a man blessed and happy.

He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.

To live well is to act well; for happiness is not a possession, but an active practice.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible.

Live out the active hypothesis; life will reveal whether your ground was firm.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

There is no way to peace - peace is the way.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

In fact, we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink.

Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of our life.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life begins where fear ends.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

When you drop expectations, you have learned to live.

To understand the beauty of a river, you have to flow with it, not stand on the bank.

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love!

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.

There is nothing more disgraceful than an old man who has no evidence of his life except his age.