Worth Living Quotes - Page 2

• There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Life Changing, Dying, Things Worth Dying For

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• The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.

  Richard Dawkins

  Passion, Convince Us, Awe And Wonder

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Morning, Heart, Thinking

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• Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.

  O.R. Melling

  Somewhere Else, Next, Like You

  O.R. Melling (2012). “The Chronicles of Faerie (Book 2): The Summer King”, Amulet Books

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• ...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.

  Chris Colfer

  Dream, Goal, Focus

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• And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.

  J.R. Ward

  Dying, And Love, Tohrment

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• Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

  Joseph Delaney

  Doe, Good Things, Passing

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• I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

  Robert Fulghum

  Money, Real, Tests

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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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• If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

  Albert Einstein

  Today, Tomorrow, Ifs

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• Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

  Francine Rivers

  Dying

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.484, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Lunch, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.148, A&C Black

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• Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Plato, What If, Meaning Of Life

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• Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

  Travis Barker

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Littles

  "In A Brief Post On His MySpace Blog, Travis Barker Writes, 'Thank You For Life, And All The Little Ups And Downs That Make It Worth Living. My Best To Everyone.'". MySpace Blog post, www.aceshowbiz.com. November 29, 2008.

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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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• Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiring, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Ten Trusts". Book by Jane Goodall, ‎Marc Bekoff, 2003.

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• We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Meaningful, Profound, Goal

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• The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

  Colin Quinn

  Greek, Firsts, Life Is

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• Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

  Harold Pinter

  Writing, Literature, Life Worth Living

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• We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Spiritual, Live Life, Life Is

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Reading, Ifs

  Nuala O'Faolain (1998). “Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman”

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• I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, Next, All Time

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 18, 2011

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  Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Struggle, Essence

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• Some kisses are worth living for

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kissing

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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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