46 Quotes About How-to-live

Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, periodically practicing normative reticence, building up a resistance to the pleasure of purity, minding your own business, doing what you can to forget to wreak vengeance, defending negative freedom even if there is no such thing, and playing around are the best you can do. But that’s quite a lot.

The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for "it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration." To live fully and securely, every human being needs what Arendt calls "specificity," the social and political status that comes with full membership in a community.

Love and Mercy, I shall live in and treat others.

What I think is that there is no way a life should be and there is only one way a life is and it is the way it is.

...But although the rules are vagueAnd widely disregarded nowSome precepts remain: live with love - That is a rule we all can understand;Forgive those who need forgiveness,Which I think is everybody, more or less;Be kind - that, perhaps, is first and foremostIn any postmodern, new-fangledCode we devise for ourselves;Yes, be kind: love one another,And most of all tend with gentlenessThe small patch of terra firma That is allocated to each of us...

That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.

A day doesn't pass that I'm not surprised.

Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to 'live' this stark reality called 'life' as a blessing, whereas some foolishly waste it by following fiction and fictitious characters.