Worthwhile Quotes - Page 21

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Religious, Children, Diversity

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• In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

  Isaac Asimov

  Machines, World, May

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• It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Wind, Childhood, Kingdoms

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2014). “The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sacrifice, Years, Dying

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Hocus Pocus”, p.9, Random House

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• For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Heart, Challenges, May

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.137, Univ of California Press

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• ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

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• Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hurt, Real, Healing

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• Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Thinking, People, World

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée (2008). “Les Liaisons Dangereuses Owc:Pb”, p.219, Oxford University Press

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• The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

  B. C. Forbes

  Life, Who Cares, Normal

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• Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.

  David Eddings

  Easy, Should, Ifs

  "Sorceress Of Darshiva: (Malloreon 4)".

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• That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

  E. C. Bentley

  Care, Definitions, Damn

  "Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It", 1936.

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• Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It’s only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.

  Richard Bach

  Jobs, Sick, Unhappy

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• Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

  Maryam Jameelah

  Struggle, Adversity, Sacrifice

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• We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Home, Quality, Dresses

  Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

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• The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

  Julia Stiles

  Pain, Emotional, Type

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.

  Andrew Weil

  Stress, Reality, Thinking

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile

  Jacqueline Rayner

  Luck, Favour, Goddess

  Jacqueline Rayner (2013). “Doctor Who: The Stone Rose”, p.248, Random House

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• You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• The first time we ever lit up a suit was on Garrett. He was the first finished costume that we had, the "Sam" character. And it brought tears to my eyes, because you're working so hard to make something happen and you're just in there, and you're delirious with sleep deprivation. To see it work, to see his reaction, made it all worthwhile.

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Character, Sleep, Eye

  "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. November 30, 2010.

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• No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other way around. I blended a lot of systems I had studied over the years, Judo, wrestling, boxing, Hapkido, Kenpo, Thai Boxing, American Kickboxing, Jujitsu, Aikido.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Wrestling, Years, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• While I do not agree with all of the claims made by experimental philosophers, especially those who seem to think xphi will somehow replace the rest of philosophy, I think xphi projects are interesting and important, I love Josh Knobe's work, and that these projects contribute something new and worthwhile to the philosophical conversation.

  L.A. Paul

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Dream, Children, Men

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• Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

  Dean Kamen

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Succeed

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• And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

  Chris LeDoux

  Stuff, Baths, Creeks

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