Worthwhile Things Quotes - Page 2

• Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

  Nora Roberts

  Healing, Becoming, Needs

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• He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many worthwhile things in this world, not merely for one's self but for others. But he is an unmitigated fool who imagines for a moment that it is more important to make the money than to make it honestly. One of the advantages of possessing money is that it facilitates one's independence and mental attitude. The man head over heels in debt is more slave than independent.

  B. C. Forbes

  Wise, Money, Attitude

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• One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all, you will know that you have not lived and died for nothing, because you will have become part of the great tradition of those who have responded to the amount of pain and suffering in the universe by trying to make the world a better place.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Bored, Suffering

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• Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.

  Dale Carnegie

  Real, Eye, Heart

  Dale Carnegie, General Press (2016). “The Art of Public Speaking”, p.159, GENERAL PRESS

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• That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

  Adam Duritz

  Song, Art, People

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• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Government, Years, Society

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Heart, Broken, Lost Everything

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.

  Karen Rose

  Eye, Thinking, Giving

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• The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Pay, Impossible, Worthwhile

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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