My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
Living well is the best revenge.
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning truth beauty.
It's harder but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you but yes it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith family home a simpler way of living the beauty of nature quiet tranquillity peace joy hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film which is bad because it's how I make my living but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family living in the country leading an idyllic life.
We say we want to create beauty identity quality singularity. And yet maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.
If philosophy is practice a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
I have this theory that depending on your attitude your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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.
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends living like starving artists and wonder 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.