Worth Living Quotes - Page 12

• The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

  Adam Leipzig

  Life Is, Unexamined Life, Examining

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• We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Morning, Art, Pain

  "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.

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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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• To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.

  Auguste Piccard

  Space, Darkness, Domain

  Auguste Piccard (1956). “Earth, Sky, and Sea”

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• The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Live Life, Forever, Life Is

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• The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Pure, One Thing

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• When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Dedication, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1951). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, New York : Harper

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• Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

  Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

  Happiness, Depth, Height

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• Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.

  John Newman

  Gratitude, Alive, Able

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• The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.

  Gyorgy Kepes

  Night, Cities, Tree

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• A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Sacrifice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

  Alvin Ailey

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

  Anton Chekhov

  Maids, Faces, Exhausted

  Letter to I.P. Chekhov, October 2, 1897.

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• He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Feels, Stills

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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• Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

  Albert Camus

  Life Is, Meaningless

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• An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

  Ergun Caner

  Life Is, Unexamined Life, Life Is Not Worth Living

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• I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Worth Living, Astonishing

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Nihilism

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, pp. 157-158, 1987.

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• Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Women, Real, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.99, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

  Max Beckmann

  Giving, Lasts, Exhilaration

  Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub

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• The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Rejection, Effort, Intellectual

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.41, Routledge

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• We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Believe, Judging, Personality

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• It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?

  Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

  Gin, Frightening, Handle

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• If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dying, Ifs

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• The examined life is the only life worth living.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Life Is, Life Worth Living

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