Quotes - Art of Living

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."

Helen Keller

"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."

Henri Frederick Amiel

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Norman Mac Ewan

"They can conquer who believe they can."

John Dryden

The more you move away from negative ego and selfish craving, the more meaningful your life becomes. Paraphrased from by Dr Wayne Dyer

To have meaning in life, is to have a purpose

ie. serve others

Wherever You Are, Be There

by Jim Rohn

One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.

While we are home our thoughts are still absorbed with solving the challenges we face at the office. And when we are at the office we find ourselves worrying about problems at home. We go through the day without really listening to what others are saying to us. We may be hearing the words, but we aren't absorbing the message. As we go through the day we find ourselves focusing on past experiences or future possibilities.

We are so involved in yesterday and tomorrow that we never even notice that today is slipping by. We go through the day rather than getting something from the day.

We are everywhere at any given moment in time except living in that moment in time.

Lifestyle is learning to be wherever you are. It is developing a unique focus on the current moment, and drawing from it all of the substance and wealth of experience and emotions that it has to offer.

Lifestyle is taking time to watch a sunset. Lifestyle is listening to silence. Lifestyle is capturing each moment so that it becomes a new part of what we are and of what we are in the process of becoming. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

This article was submitted by Jim Rohn, America's Foremost Business Philosopher. Copyright © 2000 Jim Rohn International. All rights reserved worldwide. To subscribe to the Free Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine, go to

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Some people have learned to earn well, but they haven't learned to live well.

Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates

Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Havelock Ellis

Life is a long lesson in humility.
Sir James M. Barrie

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." Henry David Thoreau

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness" - Emerson

"It is the act of learning which grants the greatest enjoyment" - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855)"Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt."
William Shakespeare (Measure by Measure)

"Chance favors the prepared mind" -
Louis Pasteur

We cannot direct the wind...But we can adjust the sails.

Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try.

There are four steps to accomplishment: Plan Purposefully. Prepare Prayerfully. Proceed Positively. Pursue Persitently.

The harder you work the luckier you get. Gary Player - Golfer

Life is my college. Louisa May Alcott.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. Jonathan Swift

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. James M Barrie

For fast acting relief try slowing down. Lily Tomli

The Splitting pf the atom has changed everything except our mode of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Albert Einstein

You can only make others better by being good yourself. Hugh R. Hanels

Information is the most valuable commodity not only to collect but to pass on. Violet Patience

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children - Kenyan Proverb

Gratitude is Heaven Itself. William Blake

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

Information is the most valuable commodity not only to collect but to pass on. Violet Patience

The true value of the human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which one has attained liberation from the self - Albert Einstein

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. Herman Hesse

No man is free who cannot command himself - Pythagoras

I simply believe that some part of the human Self...is not subject to the laws of time and space - Carl Jung

Quote: "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~ James Dean

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau

Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert

Life is a cement trampoline. Howard Nordberg

Life is wasted on the living. Douglas Adams

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. Ashleigh Brilliant

May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift

Life is the blended harmony of the yin and yang - Chuang Tzu

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius

Life is a long lesson in humility. Sir James M. Barrie

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Havelock Ellis

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. Marion Howard

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles Schulz

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. William James

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. Mel Brooks

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"; Erma Bombeck

It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A day without laughter is a day wasted - Charlie Chaplin

FEAR

'Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood'

Marie Curie

"Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear."

Mark Twain

'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us (AND others). We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, talented and fabulous? Actually who are you NOT to be?

You are a child of the Light and your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of the Light that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.'

(The above text was used by Nelson Mandela in his famous 'Freedom' speech... We use it to teach Reiki students not to fear standing in and owning their own much increased personal power. It is also a wonderful defence against those who criticize the power of others.)

TRUE PURPOSE

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence. Euripedes

Skills vary with the man. We must...strive by that which is born in us - Pindar

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts - Plato

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. - Edward Bulwer -Lytton

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting. - Abraham Maslow

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