Worth Living Quotes - Page 4

• If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

  Marcus Sedgwick

  Life, Betrayal, Perfection

  Marcus Sedgwick (2011). “Midwinterblood”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.

  Paul Bowles

  Jewels, Perfect, Moments

  Paul Bowles (1955). “The Spider's House”

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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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• 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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• I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

  Veronica Roth

  Expectations, Parent, Example

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.32, HarperCollins

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• Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Being Alone, Solitude

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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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• Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations.

  Tim Harford

  New Experiences, Discipline, People

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• In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn’t have to know.

  Libba Bray

  Silly, Eye, Shoes

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.249, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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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• 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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• 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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• All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

  Ronald Knox

  Loyalty, Thinking, Men

  Ronald Knox (2010). “In Soft Garments: Classic Catholic Apologetics”, p.105, Ignatius Press

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• I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Hinduism, Humans

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• Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.

  Denise Austin

  Inspirational, Life, Joy

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from May 20, 2014

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

  J.R. Ward

  Dying, And Love, Tohrment

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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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• 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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• 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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