Worth Living Quotes - Page 9

• What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.

  Angelique Kidjo

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• The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Laughing, Shelter

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• If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

  Andrew Young

  Littles, Speak The Truth, Controversy

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• All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Brave, Planning, Commodity

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.204, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.

  Barack Obama

  War, Ignorance, Opportunity

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• Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Years, Soul, Progress

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Worth Living, Astonishing

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

  Ergun Caner

  Life Is, Unexamined Life, Life Is Not Worth Living

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• Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

  Albert Camus

  Life Is, Meaningless

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• He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Feels, Stills

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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• It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

  Anton Chekhov

  Maids, Faces, Exhausted

  Letter to I.P. Chekhov, October 2, 1897.

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• To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

  Alvin Ailey

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Sacrifice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.

  Gyorgy Kepes

  Night, Cities, Tree

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• Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.

  John Newman

  Gratitude, Alive, Able

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• Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Nihilism

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, pp. 157-158, 1987.

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• Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Women, Real, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.99, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Evil, Growth

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.131, Beacon Press

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• To give a man his life but 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, Giving, Liberty

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• If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Dying, Found

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• The examined life is the only life worth living.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Life Is, Life Worth Living

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• If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dying, Ifs

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• It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?

  Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

  Gin, Frightening, Handle

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• We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Believe, Judging, Personality

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• The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Rejection, Effort, Intellectual

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.41, Routledge

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