Worth Living Quotes - Page 9

• Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

  Carter Burwell

  Directors, Would Be, Instruction

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• Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

  Sara Shepard

  Scared, Ifs

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• But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

  Tamera Alexander

  Courage, Live Life, Taken

  Tamera Alexander (2010). “Within My Heart (Timber Ridge Reflections Book #3)”, p.75, Bethany House

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• Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Flow, Entertainment

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, Basic Books

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• We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

  Mark Batterson

  Dying

  Mark Batterson (2009). “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”, p.16, Multnomah

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• Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.

  James Hearst

  Life, Ask Me, Asks

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• Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.

  William Osler

  Life, Heart, Soul

  Sir William Osler (2008). “The Quotable Osler”, p.76, ACP Press

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• If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Life, Money, Men

  Forbes magazine, quoted in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 302, 1950.

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• If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Society, Would Be

  "Life Without Principle". The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, Issue 71, (pp. 484-495), 1863.

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• I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 25, 2010

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• It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.

  Norbert Capek

  Life, Hero, Grateful

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• 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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• Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Dream, Challenges, Overcoming

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• The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this truly is. Unfortunately, contemporary men and women simply do not value self-knowledge in the same way that all preceding generations have. For us technocratic knowledge reigns supreme. Even when we pursue self-knowledge, we all too often reduce it to a hedonistic search for personal peace and prosperity. How poor we are! Even the pagan philosophers were wiser than this generation. They knew that an unexamined life was not worth living.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Men, Self

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• I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

  Elif Safak

  Knowing, Roots, Life Worth Living

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• My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.

  Jon Foreman

  Running, Challenges, This Life

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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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