Worth Living Quotes - Page 3

• Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.

  Henry Rollins

  Touching, Moments, Collectives

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Moving, People, Duress

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• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

  Noel Coward

  Conceited, Discovery, Nuts

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.39, Vintage

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• There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

  Raul Julia

  Two, Cigar, Two Things

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• I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.

  Bapsi Sidhwa

  Inspirational, Life, Country

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• Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came from writing fiction. I'm still that way. My life is worth living when I've completed a good paragraph.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Writing, Way, Fiction

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• Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Color, Effort

  Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). “Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i”

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• The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Lying, Believe, Understanding

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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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• The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

  Marshall Fishwick

  Commitment, Uncommitted

  Marshall William Fishwick (1963). “Faust Revisited: Some Thoughts on Satan”

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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. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

  Andrew Solomon

  Love, Depression, Strong

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

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• Life is eternal and it's worth living. What we do in this life is not futile. Death is not the end. Our practice in this life will assist us in our next life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Practice, Next

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• Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, New York, Cities

  "Lady Gaga's early career analyzed in New York profile" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 29, 2010.

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• You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

  Agatha Christie

  Self Esteem, Agree, Esteem

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• Life is worth Living
  Through every grain of it,
  From the foundations
  To the last edge
  Of the cornerstone, death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Lasts, Foundation

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Life, Women, Acceptance

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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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• How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

  Quintus Ennius

  Real, Self, Joy

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• A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

  Edward Abbey

  Tragedy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

  Bertrand Russell

  Second Chance, Found, Has Beens

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• That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

  George Santayana

  Impossible, Aging, Assumption

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 10 (1905)

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• If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Fear Of The Unknown, Ifs

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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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• Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Dying, Found

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• Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Work, Men, Leisure

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