Top 100 Worth Living For Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
Agatha Christie
#4. I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.
Sayed Kashua
#5. In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.
Joan D. Chittister
#6. Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A.J. Muste
#7. 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
#8. There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins
#9. 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
#10. How could you explain to someone that sometimes it was not worth living in the past when the past was all that they had worth living for?
Nicole Sobon
#11. A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
Mother Teresa
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. What am I dying for? he cried back. I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#15. People do what they have to do to survive, and if they're lucky, they just might find something worth living for.
Lexi DeHalo
#16. The fear of death didn't have much hold when you had nothing worth living for.
Lisa Kessler
#17. [For the French] time ... is an ephemeral currency and should be spent doing the things that make life worth living.
Debra Ollivier
#18. A baby is a small member of the home that makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, the clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. - Laurens van der Post and Jane Taylor
David Jeremiah
#19. I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.
Elif Shafak
#20. What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for
Mark Batterson
#22. People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.
Amy Grant
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades ... I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.
Cyndi Lauper
#27. 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
#28. Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
Henry Cloud
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. The smile he gives me is worth living for.
Nicola Yoon
#32. 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
#33. The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. I'm convinced that no life is worth living if it is not lived for God's glory.
Rebekah Snyder
#41. A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.
Phil Pringle
#42. Work isn't only earning a living; work gives us a sense of purpose and worth and opportunities for companionship.
Billy Graham
#43. We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth writing about. I think we've made tremendous sacrifices, we've shown tremendous strength. In the ghetto you see a lot of frustration; you see very little strength.
Ernest J. Gaines
#44. 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
#45. Some wounds were worth bearing for the healing they brought.
Dianna Hardy
#46. The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
Alexandra Stoddard
#47. Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one of them for me. I keep my honor by keeping the relic out of their hands.
Brodi Ashton
#48. Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.
John Newman
#49. Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
Francine Rivers
#50. To dream! Such dreams certainly make life more worth living ... and only dreams can do that for me.
Jean Lorrain
#51. If there were nothing else, reading would
obviously
be worth living for.
Nuala O'Faolain
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. There's a point to all the mistakes, the comebacks, the rethinking, the living
the living for all you're worth. There's a point to finding our own path. Please, give the people of Vision a chance to find theirs.
Miyuki Miyabe
#56. 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
#57. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.
Mandy Hale
#58. What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living as a human being, reminding oneself of what one was, and so it mattered, and if necessary was worth a fight.
Mohsin Hamid
#59. If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.
Etty Hillesum
#60. Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Albert Einstein
#61. It's a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for.
Scott Overton
#62. Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
Carl Jung
#63. 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
#64. I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
Edward Abbey
#65. 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
#66. The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
Booker T. Washington
#67. 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
#68. Mistakes are what make life worth
living dangerously. If it weren't for our mistakes then our victories
wouldn't taste nearly as sweet.
Justin Qwits
#69. 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
#70. We feel our lives are worth living after we discover something worth dying for.
Jeffrey Fry
#72. If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
Hamilton Fish
#74. We are not trying to solve the world's problems ... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.
Hayao Miyazaki
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.
Billie Letts
#78. A true friend is a friend for whom life is worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#79. 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
#80. Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Samuel Butler
#81. If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
Andrew Young
#82. Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'
Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'
And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for.
Joseph Heller
#83. The waiter had set down the hot drinks, and the steam did feel glorious. The piano played Satie ever so softly. Life was almost worth living, even for a son of a bitch of a monster like myself.
Anne Rice
#84. Anyone can live for themself , but life's worth better living for others.
K. Qasim Ali
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Look, Daniel, at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is manure
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#88. 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
#89. Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.
Anita Roddick
#90. Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.
Henry Rollins
#91. Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.
Ayn Rand
#92. She's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for
(Luke)
Maggie Stiefvater
#93. So I left my wonderfully intelligent family and soaked myself in the bath and considered drowning myself. Then I remembered I still had chocolate cake left over from yesterday so I came back up for air. Some things are worth living for.
Cecelia Ahern
#94. [A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
Joseph Heller
#95. Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet - for me, anyway - all that's worth living for lies in that charm?
Donna Tartt
#96. 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
#97. The gospel of Jesus Christ is worth living for, yes, and it is worth dying for, of course, but we show it is supremely valuable to us when we deny ourselves and take up our crosses to be a blessing to the people who the gospel is calling us to.
Matt Chandler
#98. You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.
Martha Albrand
#99. You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
Martial
#100. When you maintain long-term relationships with the people and things you value most, this dedication reveals worth, reliability, trustworthiness, beauty, and integrity. Be someone who adds value and cares for cherished loved ones and belongings in this moment or for life.
Laura Staley
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