Worth Living Quotes - Page 8

• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and I hope I am always in the same frame of mind when I act or do anything else. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  Kajol

  Thinking, Interesting, Mind

  "I am tired of crying: Kajol". Interview with Roshini K Olivera, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Aug 2, 2012.

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• To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

  Edith Wharton

  Looks, Able, Faces

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.328, Courier Corporation

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• In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

  John Leo

  Self, Feelings, Age

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• I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Destruction, Midst

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.82, A&C Black

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• If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

  Shay Carl

  Life Is, Life Is Worth Living, Ifs

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• We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life Is, Should, Cognitive Therapy

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1989). “Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices”, p.255, Syracuse University Press

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• Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The 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

  Art, Joy, Culture

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• Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell, man, it was really worth living.

  Junot Diaz

  Men, Done, Levels

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have
  any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Thinking, Tea

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we still have life!

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Heaven, Faithful, World

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• Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Years, Empires

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.173, Routledge

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• The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

  Amy Schumer

  Laughing, Way, Moments

  "Amy Schumer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 14, 2015.

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• The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, May, Unexamined Life

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• A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Regret, Might

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• I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Thinking, Imagine, Easy

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• Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

  Sholem Asch

  Arms, Moral, Life Is

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• Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

  Fannie Hurst

  Life, Eden, Debtors

  Fannie Hurst (1959). “Imitation of Life”, New York : Permabooks

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• People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, 'Way to go. Good job.' But the truth is, I am not really very brave; I am not really very strong; and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am simply doing what God has called me to do as a person who follows Him. He said to feed His sheep and He said to care for 'the least of these,' so that's what I'm doing, with the help of a lot people who make it possible and in the company of those who make my life worth living

  Katie Davis

  Strong, Jobs, Home

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• If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

  Sting

  Honesty, Passion, Play

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• A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

  Oscar Wilde

  Add, Examining

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• Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

  Albert Camus

  Knows

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• It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

  Mother Teresa

  Love You, People, Much Love

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• I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?

  Tupac Shakur

  Morning, Wake Up, Should

  Song: I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto

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• ...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules of a well-run corporation is that surprise is to be minimized. Yet if this rule were applied to the creative process, nothing worth reading would get written, nothing worth seeing would get painted, nothing worth living with and using would ever get designed.

  Ralph Caplan

  Running, Reading, Creative

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• Don't let life pass you by before you realise that it was worth living.

  Hillary Clinton

  Realising

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