Worth Living Quotes - Page 14

• Life unexamined, is not worth living.

  Democritus

  Live Life, Life Wisdom

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• In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Justice, Remembrance, Speech

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.

  Neil Postman

  God, People, Giving

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• Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

  A. J. Muste

  Giving Up, Life Is, Quaker

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• A life worth living is a life worth recording.

  Jim Rohn

  Life Worth Living

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• Life without risks is not worth living.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Entrepreneur, Risk

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• Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

  Jessie J

  Lonely, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Suffering, World, Fellowship With God

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• A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.

  Roz Savage

  Two, Years, Proud

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• he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

  Maria Popova

  Joy, Wonder, Capacity

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading," by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Life, Work, Views

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• The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

  William Beebe

  Study, Life Worth Living, Wells

  "On Aggression". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1963.

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• Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Talking, Silence

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• Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Perfect, Moments, Whatever Happens

  Katherine Mansfield (1974). “The Letters of Katherine Mansfield”

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• You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living.

  David Simon

  Writing, Plot Lines, Creative

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• We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.

  David Simon

  Writing, Opportunity, Missing

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• A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.

  Phil Pringle

  Christian, Godly, Brave

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.27, Whitaker House

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• See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.

  Katharine Jefferts Schori

  Jesus, Doors, Encounters

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• The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Long, Heaven

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Children, Men

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

  Carl Jung

  Ego, Dull, Facts

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Put down the pen someone else gave you.
  No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ink, Life Worth Living, Living On

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• Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Life Is, Prepared

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.700, Regnery Publishing

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• Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

  Alfred Austin

  Song, Spring, Years

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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• I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Messages, Life Is

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