Worth Living Quotes - Page 10

• To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

  George Sutherland

  Men, Giving, Liberty

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• Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Evil, Growth

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.131, Beacon Press

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• Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Years, Soul, Progress

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Two, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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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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• Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Dangerous, Dear

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

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• You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

  Tom Hanks

  Philosophy, Real, Where You Are

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• Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

  Mother Teresa

  Life Is, Life Is Not Worth Living

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• If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

  Alice Walker

  Dream, Fighting, Feelings

  "Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 02, 2012.

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• To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

  Edith Wharton

  Looks, Able, Faces

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.328, Courier Corporation

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• If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

  Shay Carl

  Life Is, Life Is Worth Living, Ifs

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• Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Music, Angel, People

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• The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.

  John Olsen

  Art, Paris, People

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• What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

  John Muir

  Dream, Adventure, Thinking

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• The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

  Nicholson Baker

  Trying, Answers, Novel

  "Nicholson Baker, The Art of Fiction No. 212". Interview with Sam Anderson in The Paris Review, Issue 198, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 2011.

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• Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The 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

  Art, Joy, Culture

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• LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

  Nick Vujicic

  Purpose, Life Is, Life Is Worth Living

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• To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Secret, Purpose, Worthwhile

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• No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

  Winston Churchill

  Attitude, Life Worth Living, Having A Positive Attitude

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• If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.

  Tony Robbins

  Ifs

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.

  Andrew Solomon

  Believe, Love You, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Brave, Planning, Commodity

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.204, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?

  Byron Katie

  Love Is, Trade

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2012

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• The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

  Jeff Buckley

  Age, Coal, Pouring

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• A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

  James Broughton

  Poetic, Life Is, Cradle

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