Worth Living Quotes - Page 11

• Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Life, Important, Therapeutic

  Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy”, p.36, Basic Books

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• Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love... love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too. -Tohrment

  J.R. Ward

  Life And Love, People, Dying

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• When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

  Gregory Maguire

  Light, Childhood, Soul

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• You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Father, Character

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

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• No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

  Gena Showalter

  Long, Overrated, Without Love

  "Unraveled". Book by Gena Showalter, 2010.

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• To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.

  P.B. Kerr

  Dream, Ambition, Men

  P.B. Kerr (2010). “Children of the Lamp #6: The Five Fakirs of Faizabad”, p.27, Scholastic Inc.

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• A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  House, Rooms

  "The Leopard" translated by Archibald Colquhoun, London: Fontana, (p. 128), 1963.

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• It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Real, Love You

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• There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Race, Dying, Answers

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• she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for (Luke)

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Months, Made, Life Worth Living

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.222, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

  Agatha Christie

  Suicide, Strong, Lying

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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• The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.

  Russell Kirk

  Religious, Character, Order

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.472, Regnery Publishing

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• You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Hard Work, Life Worth Living

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• When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Music, Two, Tough

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• There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

  Cyril Connolly

  Party, Book, Writing

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• Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

  Deborah Levy

  Home, Get Better, Life Is

  "Swimming Home by Deborah Levy - review" by John Self, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

  Albert Camus

  Common, Common Knowledge

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• …You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Beautiful, True Friend, Philosophy

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• beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Life, Sad

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• I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anything he could say, that's the funny thing. It was all the stupid, desperately optimistic, condescending things he didn't say that kept me alive; all the compassion and wamrth I felt from him that could not have been said; all the intelligence, competence, and time he put into it; and his granite belief that mine was a life worth living.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Stupid, Optimistic, Feel Better

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Oct 12, 2012

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Enemy, Meat, Pork

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

  Muriel Barbery

  Regret, Mistake, Missing

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Depressing, Two

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Dying

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• I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 25, 2010

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