Worth Living Quotes - Page 7

• Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?

  Byron Katie

  Love Is, Trade

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2012

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• It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.

  Norbert Capek

  Life, Hero, Grateful

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• The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Needs, Should

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• The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

  Jeff Buckley

  Age, Coal, Pouring

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• The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

  Adam Leipzig

  Life Is, Unexamined Life, Examining

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• I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Mean, Thinking

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “One Hand Clapping”, p.91, Profile Books

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• The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain.

  Johnny Vegas

  Depression, Rain, Shopping

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• We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Morning, Art, Pain

  "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.

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• You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

  Annie Lennox

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Like You

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• People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Two, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

  Winston Churchill

  Attitude, Life Worth Living, Having A Positive Attitude

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• It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Dangerous, Dear

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

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• You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

  Tom Hanks

  Philosophy, Real, Where You Are

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• Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

  Mother Teresa

  Life Is, Life Is Not Worth Living

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• So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Blow, Long

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• The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.

  John Olsen

  Art, Paris, People

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• What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

  John Muir

  Dream, Adventure, Thinking

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• The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

  Nicholson Baker

  Trying, Answers, Novel

  "Nicholson Baker, The Art of Fiction No. 212". Interview with Sam Anderson in The Paris Review, Issue 198, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 2011.

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• If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

  Etty Hillesum

  Confidence, Good Life, Worry

  Etty Hillesum (1983). “An interrupted life: the diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, Lester & Orpen Dennys

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• Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Music, Angel, People

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• We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

  Rollo May

  Religious, Attitude, Intellectual

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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• To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Secret, Purpose, Worthwhile

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• A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

  James Broughton

  Poetic, Life Is, Cradle

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• If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

  Alice Walker

  Dream, Fighting, Feelings

  "Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 02, 2012.

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