Top 100 Life Worth Living Quotes
#1. The most amazing thing that makes life worth living is your love.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Want to save lives, but art, like the stories you want to write ... that's the kind of stuff that makes life worth living.
Linda Kage
#3. The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Annie Dillard
#4. Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#5. He couldn't live a life worth saving, and he couldn't save a life worth living.
Jodi Picoult
#6. I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Robert Fulghum
#8. No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.
Leszek Kolakowski
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.
Pierce Brown
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.
A.J. Darkholme
#15. 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
#16. A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
James Broughton
#18. Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.
Mary Tyler Moore
#19. Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.
T. S. Eliot
#20. Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the only life worth living.
Alexander McCall Smith
#21. Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
John Eldredge
#22. Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?
Lady Gaga
#23. Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living.
Danielle Pearl
#24. The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.
Barack Obama
#25. The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.
Amy Schumer
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.
Robert Casey
#29. The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?
Nicholson Baker
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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.
#33. Even if I never get out of Clover, even if I never get into Northwestern or write for the New Yorker, even if these are just delusions occupying my time, thank God they are, because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't life worth living.
Chris Colfer
#34. Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.
Steven Redhead
#35. It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.
Robert E. Howard
#36. No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.
Winston Churchill
#38. If we are not taught about love when our brains and hearts are forming, we may never even recognize it when it stands in front of us. We may even run from it. We would miss out on the one thing that makes life worth living.
Kate McGahan
#39. 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
#40. Life is a journey of astonishing beauty, and this is what makes life worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Before operating on a patient's brain, I realized, I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end.
Paul Kalanithi
#42. Because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.
Chris Colfer
#43. War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
Francesca Lia Block
#44. The difference between knowledge and wisdom is the former makes you a living, whilst the latter makes life worth living.
Habeeb Akande
#46. What great literature does best is to show us those moments which make life worth living.
Marty Rubin
#47. Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.
Barack Obama
#48. 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
#49. We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April's hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman's point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute's sigh and the invaders' fear of memories.
Mahmoud Darwish
#50. 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
#51. Make your life worth living for, by living for the One who values it.
Anya VonderLuft
#52. 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
#53. See, Six? This is what makes life worth living. Men who don't know if they wanna fight or fuck, but will climb into a cage to figure it out in front of everyone in the sector.
Kit Rocha
#54. I tried so hard to find life within myself, to live for something great - something that would make life worth living
B.P. Morgan
#55. The person who completes your life is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather the person who made your life worth living, no matter how long or short a time you were given to spend with them.
Susan Meissner
#56. This is the only thing that makes life worth living. If you have succeeded in doing something you wanted to do, something that seemed impossible - well, then, make the most of it, with all your heart, to the very brim.
Ivan Turgenev
#57. 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
#58. You can have great autonomy in the things you choose to learn and pursue on your own time. When you're learning things that interest you, challenge you, and make life worth living, getting an education can be blissful and stimulating.
Kate Bornstein
#59. Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.
Arda Collins
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. The only life worth living was the unfree life ... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect.
Chad Harbach
#63. When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#64. No matter how perfect our circumstances, most of us, as Adam Phillips observed, "learn to live somewhere between the lives we have and the lives we would like." The hard part is to make peace with that misty zone and to recognize that no life - no life worth living anyway - is free of constraints.
Jennifer Senior
#65. 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
#66. Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.
Robert Fulghum
#67. The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
William Beebe
#69. 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
#70. Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.
Denise Austin
#71. 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
#72. Is life worth living simply because you live, or is it worth more if you make life happen?
Jaycee Dugard
#74. I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As Spring revives the year,
And hails us with the cuckoo's song,
To show that she is here;
Alfred Austin
#79. Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness - one where we feel our best and perform our best - it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.
Steven Kotler
#80. The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
W. Somerset Maugham
#81. The healing power lies in the encounter with sensitive people; it makes life worth living.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#82. 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
#83. I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
Oscar Wilde
#84. I think that film combines almost every element that makes human life worth living.
Penelope Mitchell
#85. 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
#86. It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living.
Pat Frank
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Does sex make life worth living? Didn't you say, the other day, 'Our lives are only as good as our orgasms'?
Hanif Kureishi
#90. Unmitigated Blackness is coming to the realization that as fucked up and meaningless as it all is, sometimes it's the nihilism that makes life worth living.
Paul Beatty
#91. 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
#93. Love is not necessary to life, but it is what makes life worth living." - Anon
C.J. Duggan
#95. Somentimes challenging and different and risky is what makes life worth living.
Jennifer Archer
#96. The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
Alexandra Stoddard
#97. 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
#99. 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
#100. Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
Walter Kirn
