Top 100 A Life Worth Living Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
Dale Dauten
#3. I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.
Elif Shafak
#4. Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living.
Dan B. Allender
#5. Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.
Annie Dillard
#7. We give them material things and take delight in their delight in possessions. Then we hope that somewhere down the line they will see that a life worth living is found only in knowing and serving God.
Tedd Tripp
#8. 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
#9. A life worth living, and work worth doing - that is what I want for children (and all people), not just, or not even, something called 'a better education.
John Holt
#10. A life worth living is a life worth recording.
Jim Rohn
#11. Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#12. If you're going to have a life worth living, you have to take risks.
Anna Jarzab
#13. A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.
Roz Savage
#14. If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living.
Ned Vizzini
#15. Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.
Robert Thier
#16. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna
Vicki Pettersson
#17. A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.
Stefan Zweig
#18. And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living.
John Eldredge
#19. What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living.
Mary Lou Retton
#20. If we were always given a choice as to every path presented us in life, a multitude of roads leading to priceless treasures would forever go untraveled.
Be grateful for your adversities.
From toil and triumph evolves a life worth living."
- from "Brahna A'Mahr
Richelle E. Goodrich
#21. Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength ... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
Adrienne Rich
#22. I know that a lot of Christian kids rebel. But as I said earlier, I'm convinced that most of them don't really want to. They just haven't been given a better alternative. The only true antidote for a life of rebellion is a life worth living.
Tim Kimmel
#23. Thank you. (Nykyrian)
For what? (Kiara)
For giving me a life worth living. I know I'm not worth it, and that I don't deserve it, but I swear to the gods I finally believe in that I will spend every moment I have left making you happy and trying to be worthy of you. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.
Aleksandar Hemon
#26. Because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.
Chris Colfer
#28. Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.
Steven Redhead
#29. 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.
#30. We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, 'I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and i'm going to try to make myself a life worth living.
Howard Dully
#31. Creating a life worth living may be the most difficult work that you'll ever do. There will be some days that you won't feel up to the task but if you keep moving forward this will become easier. In the end, though, success can be yours and we'll have been cheerleading you all the way.
Debbie Corso
#32. 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
#33. A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.
Gary Keller
#34. Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.
A.J. Darkholme
#35. I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Robert Fulghum
#36. He couldn't live a life worth saving, and he couldn't save a life worth living.
Jodi Picoult
#37. In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.
John Leo
#38. Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. But you know, an over-examined life can be a real crap festival, too.
Alex Bosworth
#39. A risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.
Joel Salatin
#40. What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!
Ken Puddicombe
#41. Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A.J. Muste
#42. AT THE CENTER of Wilson's work was an attempt to solve a deceptively simple puzzle: what makes life worth living when we are old and frail and unable to care for ourselves?
Atul Gawande
#43. There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins
#44. As I look back on the time I've spent with him, loving him, learning him, I'm grateful for the moments. Because in the end, it's the moments that make life worth living ...
Marie Hall
#45. me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life - it's not worth living.
Christie Golden
#46. We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.
Donna Lynn Hope
#47. In the midst of meeting new people and making plans, I forgot that my plan is to walk straight into a battle that could claim my life. Right after I realized that my life was worth living.
Veronica Roth
#48. When you're faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and there are a lots of things you want to do.
Stephen Hawking
#49. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.
George Sutherland
#50. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
Pam Houston
#51. Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.
John Sloan
#52. 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
#53. Inanimate objects have a life of their own, especially when they are the daily companions of a living soul. Without that life, they take on a bleak, desolate appearance, like furniture piled up in a warehouse.
Jennifer Worth
#54. Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance - as whether one escapes or not - ultimately would not be worth living at all.
Viktor E. Frankl
#57. Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
Grenville Kleiser
#58. A life without tragedy would not be worth living. We
Edward Abbey
#59. Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.
Chloe Thurlow
#60. Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
Carter Burwell
#61. I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!
Max Beckmann
#62. Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living.
Paulo Coelho
#63. So far as he was concerned, this had been a bang-up night. Dynamite, a nice brawl, free brandy, and getting to scare the piss out of someone. It was the simple things that made his life worth living.
Brandon Sanderson
#64. 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
#65. It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#66. Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.
Mark Twain
#67. 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. The
Kurt Vonnegut
#68. I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.
Larry Graham
#69. If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be deeper into idolatry than you think.
Colin S. Smith
#70. Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
Mira Grant
#71. Your science can save a man's life, but imagination makes it worth living.
Natasha Pulley
#72. 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
#74. It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living.
Pat Frank
#75. The supreme good - to examine everything - a life which was not devoted to such research would not be worth living. Happiness would thus consist in their never-ending quest. PLATO
Alexandra Stoddard
#76. 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
#77. A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.
Christopher Buehlman
#78. Nothing feels dirtier than living a life that is not your own. No amount of money is worth my soul. I would rather be homeless and go out in a blaze of glory than subject myself to a slow and steady death of apathy and government by my environment.
Chris Matakas
#79. And who the hell was that twiggy bitch?" As soon as it's out of my mouth I regret it. All my life I've had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it's that if it's not your body, it's not yours to comment on. Fat. Skinny. Short. Tall. It doesn't matter. But
Julie Murphy
#80. Solitude is 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.
Coleman Barks
#81. Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.
Karen Katafiasz
#82. The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.
Joseph Goebbels
#83. It is a cumulative tragedy, the same tragedy that blights the entire country. With so many dead bodies, how do you begin to rebuild? How do you trust enough to hope? And how do you hold on to life when it no longer seems worth living?
Vanessa Woods
#84. I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
Dan Savage
#85. You're gonna miss each and every shot you can't be bothered to take. That's not living life
that's just being a tourist. Take every shot, Kate. If it's worth caring about, no matter how impossible you think it is
you take the shot.
Matt Fraction
#86. I 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
#87. Spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.
Russell M. Nelson
#88. It's the process of making-do,
of the life I've lived between
breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life
worth living.
I could not bear a life
with everything perfect.
Jimmy Santiago Baca
#89. Negative thought saps a person's strength.
Positive thought is healthy to the soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#90. Dogs are never in a bad mood over something you said at breakfast. Dogs never sniff at the husks of old conversations, or conduct autopsies on weekends gone wrong. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.
Abigail Thomas
#91. Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing ... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.
Elizabeth Mitchell
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Do you think maybe your writing isn't going anymore because you're unhappy? Because you're not living the life you could? A life worth writing about? You must know that cliche-write what you know-but what do you know, Bree, when you shut the world out?
Holly Bourne
#95. Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Albert Einstein
#96. No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
Moliere
#97. Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
Carl Jung
#98. ..there is a lot of gray between life and death. Life isn't worth living if you aren't with the ones you love.
Melissa West
#99. The very essence of leadership is you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato's unexamined life, is not worth living.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
#100. 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
