living wisely Quotes

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.