Living Life
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them … I shall use my time.”
–Jack London (American Novelist, 1876-1916)
Living Well
“There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man’s desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.”
–Johann Georg von Zimmermann (Swiss Physician and Philosopher, 1728-1795)
Life Mastery
“The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it.”
–Edwin Hubbell Chapin (American Clergyman and Writer, 1814-1880)
Love and Live the Questions
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.”
–Rainer Maria Rilke (Austro-German Poet, 1875-1926)
