Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. — Albert Einstein
There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for. — Elisabeth Elliot
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. — Zane Grey
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. — Simone de Beauvoir
you have the right to live a beautiful life — Selena Gomez
Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82) — Ernest Holmes
Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living! — Rihanna
Short Life Worth Living Quotes
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. — Tom Robbins
There's more to life then living, so hold on. — Todd Strasser
You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. — Charlie Chaplin
Life unexamined, is not worth living. — Democritus
You only have one life. You have to spend it doing something that matters. — Michael J. Massimino
A life not lived for others is not a life. — Mother Teresa
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. — Bertrand Russell
Live your life to the fullest. — Shakira
Top 10 Life Worth Living Quotes
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. — Mary Tyler Moore
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. — Lord Byron
Life Worth Living Image Quotes
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. — Harold Pinter
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
You Make Life Worth Living Quotes
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
If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward. — Sting
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
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. — Dolly Parton
I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday. — Anne Frank
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. — Morgan Freeman
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
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
I can't say this too often - that a little humor can make life worth living. That has always been my credo. Somebody once asked me, 'What would you like your epitaph to be?' I've always said that I'd like it to be: He left people a little happier than they were when he came into the room. — Bennett Cerf
Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life. — John Wooden
Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever. — Ray Bradbury
What Makes Life Worth Living Quotes
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
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
No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living. — Leszek Kolakowski
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it — Anais Nin
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
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. — William James
I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and I hope I am always in the same frame of mind when I act or do anything else. That's what makes life interesting and worth living. — Kajol
This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run. — Martha Beck
the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living. — Joyce Grenfell
It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted. — Benjamin Booker
Make Your Life Worth Living Quotes
You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living. — Mike Krzyzewski
Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig? — Rolf Potts
Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived. Make sure you make it a story you’re proud to have others tell. — Adam Braun
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
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
There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love. — Cyril Connolly
Live A Life Worth Living Quotes
A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it. — Tony Evans
Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present. — Deepak Chopra
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Put down the pen someone else gave you.
No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. — Jack Kerouac
Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. — Carl Jung
If there is a single lesson I have learned, it is this: in life, we are destined to lose many things. That is the nature of life. Never mind. Just don't lose the present. Nothing is worth it. — William Ury
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
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
I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go. — Elif Safak
Life Not Worth Living Quotes
My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life. — Jon Foreman
I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope. — Harvey Milk
Life without freedom is not worth living. — Javier Milei
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again. — Monica Seles
In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living. — John Eldredge
As a species, we are living much longer than ever. But not much better. Not at all. Over the past century we have gained additional years, but not additional life — not life worth living anyway. — David Sinclair
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same. — Tao Lin
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm. — Christopher Titus
Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for. — Eric Greitens
...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living. — Chris Colfer
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining. — Oscar Wilde
Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. — Unknown
Whoever said life without love isn't worth living didn't own an iPhone. These things are great. — Dov Davidoff
I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living. — Charles Lindbergh
Everybody knows life isn't worth living. — Albert Camus
It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people. — Mother Teresa
You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living. — Martha Albrand
Life Is Worth Living Quotes
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. — David Attenborough
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. — Alvin Ailey
You can take back all the things you give,
But you can't take back the days you live.
Life is to some people who've been on earth
Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
I live life just how I please,
Satisfy one person I know: that's me. — Too $hort
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end! — David Brainerd
I thought that tackling aging and the mechanisms that promote life would be worth figuring out. I wanted to learn why it is that some people are healthier than others and why some people live to 110 and others only to 60 or 70. — David Sinclair
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living. — Etty Hillesum
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. — Theodore Roosevelt
The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women — Waylon Jennings
You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize. — Sam Nunn
The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go. — Forrest Church
Life Is Not Worth Living Quotes
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. — Anthony Bourdain
Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease. — Ryan Allis
All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it. — Katherine Anne Porter
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. — Plato
Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are. — Jessie J
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
The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live. — Soren Kierkegaard
Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it. — Frederick Buechner
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living. — William Sloane Coffin
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
The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone. — William Howard Taft
Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we still have life! — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. — Saul Bass
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
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. — Rachel Naomi Remen
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