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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 our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

  Sam Harris

  Views, Political, Brain

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape”, p.191, Random House

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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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• 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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• We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

  Eve Curie

  Fear, War, Pride

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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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• You don't get a life until you make one worth living.

  Dan Wells

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• Life before toilet paper was not worth living.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Paper, Toilets, Toilet Paper

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.866, Macmillan

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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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• Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

  Henry Cloud

  Dating, Dying, Sometimes

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• Any life worth living is going to have risks

  Richelle Mead

  Risk, Life Worth Living, Sydney Sage

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.211, Penguin

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• On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

  Tao Lin

  Strong, Average, World

  Tao Lin (2013). “Taipei”, p.127, Vintage

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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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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Happiness, Obscurity

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.27, St. Martin's Press

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• Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Iron Will, Trout, Earth

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

  Martha Graham

  Love, Dance, Dancing

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• It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

  Dan Millman

  Life, May, Action

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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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• 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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• 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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• That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living.

  Khushwant Singh

  Couple, Home, Flames

  Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”, p.12, Penguin Books India

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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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