Top 80 Life Is Worth Living For Quotes
#2. Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A.J. Muste
#3. See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.
Katharine Jefferts Schori
#4. To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
Charles Colson
#5. Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#6. Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.
Mother Teresa
#7. Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life.
Anya VonderLuft
#8. Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
Whittaker Chambers
#9. 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
#10. Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.
Bill Bryson
#11. There is always a hope for the living.
Life is worth living, no matter what situation you may have encounter.
No situations is permanent.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#12. 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
#13. To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
P.B. Kerr
#14. There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well.
Michael Meade
#15. Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
Carl Jung
#16. Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
Sean O'Casey
#17. What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.
Bob Dole
#18. When everything considered valuable in life is seen to be nothing in comparison to the glory of Christ, you learn rather well that Christ alone is worth living for.
Matt Chandler
#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 you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
Alice Walker
#21. Life isn't worth living if you're not fighting for something. A lost cause is a life mission worthy of pursuit just to prove them wrong.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
Byron Katie
#23. Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.
A.J. Darkholme
#24. Sometimes the fridge is empty. Sometimes you run out of booze. Sometimes a guy hits you for no reason. Sometimes life doesn't seem worth living. Sometimes you hate yourself. But there's never a time when you don't enjoy a smoke.
Chloe Thurlow
#25. Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
Gilbert Parker
#26. For those moments, life is worth living. Moments of kindness, caring, and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Sometimes, it's worth living the dreams, tasks, hopes or ambitions of the people you love, however unjustifiable or stupid they may sound. Sometimes, it's worth completing what they stood up for. That is the best gift you can give to the people you love.
Sapan Saxena
#28. Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
Roger Ebert
#29. 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
#30. This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.
Shaun Hick
#32. 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
#33. There is a greater purpose to living which is found in the spirit, which is the Being, and that purpose is worth living for.
Belsebuub
#34. I can truly say my life is worth living now because I've found someone worth dying for.
Sierra Rose
#35. Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for?
Cesar Nascimento
#36. There are four questions of value in life ... 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 same. Only love.
Johnny Depp
#37. As men and women seek to find independence from God, they have lost a sense of purpose in life. The worth of human personality is often equated with what we do for a living. However, a person's occupation, community standing, or bank account is not what is important in God's eyes.
Billy Graham
#38. It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
Patrick Kavanagh
#39. My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.
Jon Foreman
#40. 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
#41. How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?
Rebecca Goldstein
#42. So far, I've only discovered four things that make life worth living for me. My work is one of them." "What are the other three?" Jacob wanted to know. "Music, books, and sex," I said. "Not necessarily in that order." His eyebrows
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#43. The unlived life is not worth examining ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.
Jo Coudert
#44. 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
#45. The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
Alexandra Stoddard
#46. 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
#47. I'm convinced that no life is worth living if it is not lived for God's glory.
Rebekah Snyder
#49. Life is not perfect. But it is how you face it that's worth living for. From there you will find out how beautiful it is to live.
Kcat Yarza
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE.
Umberto Eco
#54. 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
#55. To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
Marsha Sinetar
#56. What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. [For the French] time ... is an ephemeral currency and should be spent doing the things that make life worth living.
Debra Ollivier
#58. 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
#59. Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.
Hayao Miyazaki
#60. Waiting to live life is not worth it. Waiting for someone to figure out how to live with you is not worth waiting for. When you start living your own life, life brings you someone worth being with ...
Sadiqua Hamdan
#61. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?
Ayn Rand
#62. Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
C. G. Jung
#63. Purpose is the most important thing worth living for
Sunday Adelaja
#64. Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
Albert Einstein
#65. 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
#66. It says, Over these three years, our leader has had the courage to face a Europe that was in danger of collapse . . . It says, He alone is to be thanked for the fact that, for German children, a German life has once again become worth living.
Anthony Doerr
#67. You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
Martial
#68. 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
#69. When life gets tough, when you're overwhelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living for Christ is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet. At death you won't leave home - you'll go home.
Rick Warren
#70. Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Sidney Hook
#71. Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Samuel Butler
#72. Living someone else's dream is truly a nightmare. None should forfeit their life's aspirations to toil for the goals of another. Unity of purpose is a sentence. Collectivism is a crime; theft of individual worth.
A.E. Samaan
#73. A true friend is a friend for whom life is worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.
David Moody
#75. Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.
O.R. Melling
#76. Just like me. Just like so many others. Tragedies may change who we are, may alter the paths we take, sometimes drastically. But we can still continue on, continue living for tomorrow. Tomorrow is always worth fighting for." Mach Derune, A Time for Revenge, The End of Old Ways series
A.W.Chrystalis
#77. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
Muriel Barbery
#78. 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
#79. Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
Carl Jung
#80. 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
