The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and endure very much

Happiness: The art of living happily is to forget the past which no longer exists, not to be worried about the future which has not come yet, and to live the present movement mindfully and wisely. All we have is here and now.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

Goodwill is not enough; we need to learn the art of making others happy. Art is the essence of life, and the substance of art is mindfulness.

Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.

The whole art of living is to make use of the individuals through whom we suffer.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain — to just be with it all.

The art of living is the art of compromise.

The art of dying is part of the art of living.

The art of happy-making begins when we find our happiness within instead of without.