What Makes Life Worth Living Quotes

#1. I think there are two types of people - those who view life's uncertainty with dread and fear, and those who recognize that life's unpredictability is what makes life worth living.

Christopher E. Long

#2. 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

#3. No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

Leszek Kolakowski

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Life is a journey of astonishing beauty, and this is what makes life worth living.

Debasish Mridha

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. True love is what makes life worth living.

D.F. Jones

#13. 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

#14. What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. 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

#16. Somentimes challenging and different and risky is what makes life worth living.

Jennifer Archer

#17. Love is not necessary to life, but it is what makes life worth living." - Anon

C.J. Duggan

#18. Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

Edmund Phelps

#19. 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

#20. That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.

Kate Lord Brown

#21. One needs something to look forward to - that's what makes life worth living.

Brian Williams

#22. It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.

Debasish Mridha

#23. It's not what you have, but whom you love that makes life worth living.

Val Stasik

#24. While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

Richard Kearney

#25. 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

#26. It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

W. Somerset Maugham

#27. I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

Kajol

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Mary Tyler Moore