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• It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Depressing, Way, Ugly

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• 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, Worthwhile Things, Becoming

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• Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

  Portia de Rossi

  Animal, Lovely, Sensitivity

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• Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm about the business or its price. When we are convinced as to attractiveness, we believe in buying worthwhile amounts.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Trying, Investing

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• Resolving to influence and persuade others will require a degree of personal passion and a depth of caring that you are willing to express and act on. I can tell you this: it will make you feel very vulnerable. The only antidote is to believe you are after a worthwhile change and that you are likely to be the right one to lead this particular charge.

  Charlotte Beers

  Believe, Passion, Caring

  Charlotte Beers (2012). “I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work”, p.239, Vanguard Press

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• Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.

  A. J. McLean

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

  Diana Nyad

  Mom, Regret, Want

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• Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s a difference between the two. It’s fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there’s difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It’s inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It’s part of the definition of the work.

  David Guterson

  Fun, Writing, Mean

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• I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something that’s challenging and worthwhile.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Careers, People, Challenges

  "NASA's First Female Hispanic Astronaut Shares Experiences". www.nasa.gov. June 26, 2003.

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• If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile.

  Milton S. Hershey

  Children, Hundred, Ifs

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• It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?

  Mas Oyama

  Achievement, Tears, Toil

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• Any doorway that leads you to a deeper understanding of who you are is worthwhile.

  Rodney Yee

  Understanding, Doorways, Deeper

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• Does the sun ask itself, "Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?" No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?" No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?" No, it burns, it shines.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Moon, Thinking, Shining

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• Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Lying, Opportunity, World

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• Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

  Brian Tracy

  Accomplishment, Essentials, Willpower

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.32, John Wiley & Sons

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• The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Pain, Demand, Packaging

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• Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

  David Bellos

  Creative, Brain, Use

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• Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Knowing, Different

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• Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on television or in "real life." The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some "high" to feel worthwhile.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Real, Reading

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.

  Andy Richter

  Thinking, Focus, Important

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  House, Made, Has Beens

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• Perhaps love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the bumpy ride worthwhile and provides a glorious destination.

  Michael R. Burch

  Perhaps Love, World, Destination

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• I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Trying, Nerves

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.20, Anchor

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• Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Expression, Years

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