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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Inspirational Life, Believe, Use

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• You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Hard Work, Contact

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• You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

  Annie Lennox

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Like You

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• The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Pain, Men

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• Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

  John Eldredge

  Life, Desire, Maps

  John Eldredge (2007). “Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Useless Things

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.298, Soho Press

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

  William James

  Life, Humorous, Philosophical

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• Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dog, Writing, Literature

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• Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Being Alone, Solitude

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• If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.

  Marion Woodman

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

  Hugh Prather

  Change, Giving Up, People

  Hugh Prather (1977). “Notes on Love and Courage”, Main Street Books

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• Focus on quality of life, and enjoy a life worth living. Researchers have said that only 4% of people enjoy both their work and their personal life.

  Gary Lockwood

  Work, People, Focus

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• I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anything he could say, that's the funny thing. It was all the stupid, desperately optimistic, condescending things he didn't say that kept me alive; all the compassion and wamrth I felt from him that could not have been said; all the intelligence, competence, and time he put into it; and his granite belief that mine was a life worth living.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Stupid, Optimistic, Feel Better

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Oct 12, 2012

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• Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

  Alfred Austin

  Song, Spring, Years

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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• The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Life, Success, Nature

  "The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings".

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• Is life worth living?
  Yes, so long as there is wrong to right.
  So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives,
  And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives;
  While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will,
  And men are free to think and act,
  Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

  William Beebe

  Study, Wells, Worth Living

  "On Aggression". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1963.

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• he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

  Maria Popova

  Joy, Wonder, Capacity

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading," by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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• War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

  Francesca Lia Block

  War, Moments, Illusion

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• It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

  John Wooden

  Balance, Busy, Forget

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• Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.

  William Osler

  Life, Heart, Soul

  Sir William Osler (2008). “The Quotable Osler”, p.76, ACP Press

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• What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

  Zane Grey

  Life, Suicide, Dark

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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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• What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to the question of what it is that makes an individual human life worth living they didn't look to the immortals but rather approached the question in mortal terms. Their approaching the question of human mattering in human terms is the singularity that creates the conditions for philosophy in ancient Greece, most especially as these conditions were realized in the city-state of Athens.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Religious, Philosophy, Cities

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