...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

So, the bottom line is: if you want to live well and die well, you first have to find out what is really important to you and stick to it. With that, you can get out there and get yourself a life, a real one.

the most important thing is not life, but the good life.

Criton - Le principe, que l'important n'est pas de vivre, mais de bien vivre.

I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.

For mere living is not a good, but living well is.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Life is not living, but living in health.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then naturally we will be all right.

While living, I want to live well.

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

Remember to live.

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.