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How to live20 quotes
For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives. — Socrates · 375 BCShare everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. — Robert Fulghum · 1988Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation. — Alasdair Gray · 2004All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954My child, you are still young, and time as it advances [888b] will cause you to reverse many of the opinions you now hold: so wait till then before pronouncing judgment on matters of most grave importance; and of these the gravest of all—though at present you regard it as naught—is the question of holding a right view about the gods and so living well, or the opposite. — Plato · 346 BCAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. — Gandalf · 2001All 20 quotes →Pleasure2 quotes
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. — Epicurus · 240It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably. — Epicurus · 240Simple living2 quotes
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. — William Morris · 1882Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. — Jerome K. Jerome · 1889Time2 quotes
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. — Gandalf · 2001Belief in God1 quote
My child, you are still young, and time as it advances [888b] will cause you to reverse many of the opinions you now hold: so wait till then before pronouncing judgment on matters of most grave importance; and of these the gravest of all—though at present you regard it as naught—is the question of holding a right view about the gods and so living well, or the opposite. — Plato · 346 BCClutter1 quote
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. — William Morris · 1882Days1 quote
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. — William Blake · 1794Decisions and choices1 quote
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954Getting what you want1 quote
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. — Logan Pearsall Smith · 1931Happiness1 quote
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. — Epicurus · 240Hedonism1 quote
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. — Epicurus · 240Interior design1 quote
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. — William Morris · 1882Life1 quote
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954Living well1 quote
It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably. — Epicurus · 240Making the most1 quote
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. — Gandalf · 2001Purpose of life1 quote
For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives. — Socrates · 375 BCSpending time1 quote
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. — Gandalf · 2001The human condition1 quote
That great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. — John Morley · 1887Trusting oneself1 quote
Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808