Worth Living Quotes - Page 15

• The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Book, Thinking, Adventurous Life

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• Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we’re to have a future worth living.

  Raffi

  Children, Profound, Needs

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• For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

  Robert Musil

  Fire, Soul, Sparks

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

  Henry Ford

  Cooperation, Individualism

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• What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

  Bob Dole

  War, Hero, Self Worth

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• Is life worth living?
  Yes, so long as there is wrong to right.
  So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives,
  And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives;
  While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will,
  And men are free to think and act,
  Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• Wake up feeling like my life's worth living. Can't recall when I last felt that way. Guess it must be all this love you're giving. Never knew never knew it could be like this, but I guess some hearts they just get all the right breaks. Some hearts have the stars on their side. Some hearts they just have it so easy. Some hearts just get lucky sometimes.

  Carrie Underwood

  Stars, Fall, Love You

  Song: Some Hearts, Album: Some Hearts, 2005

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• It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Reality, Curiosity, Enthusiasm

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

  Zane Grey

  Life, Suicide, Dark

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• The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Pain, Men

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• Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

  Arda Collins

  Writing, Important, Life Worth Living

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• It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Life, Aka, Individuality

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• The life which is not examined is not worth living.

  Plato

  Life, Self Discovery

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• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Good Life, Inspirational Life, Matter

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• No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

  Robert A. Burton

  Good Life, Humility, Reflection

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Uncommitted

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• We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

  Randolph Bourne

  Quality, May, Guarding

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

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• The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Analysis, Life Is

  Brian Greene (2005). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• A life without criticism is not worth living.

  Robert Kennedy

  Criticism

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.

  Henri Poincare

  Life, Beautiful, Nature

  "Science and Method". Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by Francis Maitland. Part I, Chapter 1: "The Selection of Facts", p. 22, 1914.

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• It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

  David Brainerd

  Yield, Acting, Finishing

  David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.242

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• If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Liberty, May

  "Instead of a Book".

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• Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

  Erich Segal

  Heroism, Quiet, Idealism

  Erich Segal (2014). “The Class”, p.517, Bantam

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• I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

  Harvey Milk

  Giving, Ems, Life Is

  The Times of Harvey Milk, www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Life, Laughter, Long

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more”, p.759, e-artnow

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