Life Is Worth Living Quotes

• Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

  William Feather

  Life, Happiness, Adventure

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• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Life, Wise, Dream

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• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  Metropolitan Life (1978) p. 101

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• Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

  William James

  Life, Humorous, Philosophical

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• Love like you'll never be hurt.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Ass

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• Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

  Johnny Ball

  Birthday, Effort, Tragedy

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• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Art, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Men, History

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4087, Delphi Classics

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• There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Dying

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• Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Spiritual, Witty

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Allen (2015). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, BookRix

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Clever, Cheer Up, Kung Fu Panda

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• This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

  William James

  Life, Inspiration, Purpose

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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