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• Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

  Margaret Fuller

  Woe, Infinite Hope, Life Is

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.306

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• If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

  Marcus Sedgwick

  Life, Betrayal, Perfection

  Marcus Sedgwick (2011). “Midwinterblood”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Passion, Emotional, Burning

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, Next, All Time

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 18, 2011

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• On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

  Tao Lin

  Strong, Average, World

  Tao Lin (2013). “Taipei”, p.127, Vintage

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• A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Men, Mind

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• So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

  "What Do We Have To Teach Plato?". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, news.stlpublicradio.org. April 22, 2014.

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• We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

  Laurie Colwin

  Fellowship, Life Is, Knows

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• Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations.

  Tim Harford

  New Experiences, Discipline, People

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• Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Worst Situation, Goal, Challenges

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• It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave.

  George Sutherland

  Men, Rights, Giving

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• If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

  Sam Harris

  Views, Political, Brain

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape”, p.191, Random House

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• We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Spiritual, Live Life, Life Is

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

  Francine Rivers

  Dying

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.484, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.

  Donald Miller

  Children, Love Is, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.226, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.

  J.R. Ward

  Dying, And Love, Tohrment

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• Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

  Annie Dillard

  Ideas, Joy, Secret

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.174, Canongate Books

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• You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.

  Martha Albrand

  Caring, World, Care

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• the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Thinking, Discovery, Curiosity

  Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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• Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiring, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Ten Trusts". Book by Jane Goodall, ‎Marc Bekoff, 2003.

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• In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn’t have to know.

  Libba Bray

  Silly, Eye, Shoes

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.249, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

  Eve Curie

  Fear, War, Pride

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• Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.

  Denise Austin

  Inspirational, Life, Joy

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from May 20, 2014

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• Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Enjoy Life, Curiosity

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

  Rihanna

  Letting Go, Life Is, Feels

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