Worth Living Quotes - Page 13

• No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

  Moliere

  Passion, Literature, Matter

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• Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.

  James Hearst

  Life, Ask Me, Asks

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• If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Life, Money, Men

  Forbes magazine, quoted in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 302, 1950.

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• Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.

  William Osler

  Life, Heart, Soul

  Sir William Osler (2008). “The Quotable Osler”, p.76, ACP Press

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• Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

  Benjamin Barber

  Taught, Students, Life Is

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• If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Society, Would Be

  "Life Without Principle". The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, Issue 71, (pp. 484-495), 1863.

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• PMA is the right mental attitude for each specific occasion. It has the power to attract the good and the beautiful. NMA repels them. It is a negative mental attitude that robs you of all that makes life worth living.

  W. Clement Stone

  Beautiful, Attitude, Negative

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to the question of what it is that makes an individual human life worth living they didn't look to the immortals but rather approached the question in mortal terms. Their approaching the question of human mattering in human terms is the singularity that creates the conditions for philosophy in ancient Greece, most especially as these conditions were realized in the city-state of Athens.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Religious, Philosophy, Cities

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• As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

  Joy Behar

  Believe, Life Is, Said

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• How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Making Money, Aim, Insignificant

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.78, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject to a health commission just like in England which will decide if their lives are worth living much longer.

  Nat Hentoff

  Government, People, Age

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

  Adrienne Rich

  Running, Children, Past

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

  Sayed Kashua

  Fighting, People, One Day

  "'It's A Surviving Tool': 'Native' Tells Satirical Stories Of Life In Israel". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. February 12, 2016.

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• This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

  Martha Beck

  Running, Horse, Way

  Martha Beck (2011). “Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic”, p.139, Harmony

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• Whoever said life without love isn't worth living didn't own an iPhone. These things are great.

  Dov Davidoff

  Love Is, Iphone, Said Life

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• Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

  Helen Hayes

  Learning, Home, Taught Us

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• If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.

  Paul Taylor

  Ifs

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• The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Tired, Suffering, Earth

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• Life is a beautiful struggle, but life is worth living

  Jaeson Ma

  Beautiful, Struggle, Life Is

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• No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  Victory, Defeat, Life Worth Living

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• We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Hatred, Trying, Encounters

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• Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.

  Wayne Coyne

  The End Of The Day, Life Is, Celebrate

  Interview with Jennifer Van Evra, blankonblank.org. 2002.

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• Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

  John Eldredge

  Life, Desire, Maps

  John Eldredge (2007). “Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Airplane, Mean, People

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• All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Civilization, Government, Progress

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