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Worth Living For Quotes

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

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

Some kisses are worth living for
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I'm stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie's list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn't have to know.
- Libba Bray

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

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
- Whittaker Chambers

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
- Dwight D Eisenhower

If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.
- Henry David Thoreau

If life is worth living for so is it worth dying.
- Santosh Kalwar

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 the same. Only love.
- Johnny Depp

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

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
- Elisabeth Elliot

Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.
- Ogwo David Emenike

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

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- Tom Robbins

...[A]nything worth dying for... is certainly worth living for.
- Joseph Heller

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

Why are you still alive?"
"Because I have something worth living for.
- J K Rowling

Until you realize love's the only thing worth living for in the first place
- Katie Kacvinsky

We're taught to love only a few people. We think it's this sacred resource, like we'll run out of it at some point. But the more you love, the more it's returned to you. Hands down. You can't argue with that."
"Maybe," I say. "Or maybe you stop giving it so freely because one day it's taken away and it hurts so much, you need to protect yourself."
She know what I'm referring to. "Until you realize love's the only think worth living for in the first place.
- Katie Kacvinsky

There's no such thing as one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
- Mercedes Lackey

...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

Then tell them we've all got meanness in us...But tell them 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

The rescue of drowning men is... a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. It seems to me that all political duties (among which I include military duties) are of this kind. A man may have to die for our country, but no man must, in an exclusive sense, live for his country.
- C S Lewis

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

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

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.
- Nuala O Faolain

I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit.
- Mario Puzo

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
- Ross Perot

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
- Ross Perot

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
- Francine Rivers

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

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
- Andrew Solomon

And love ... love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too.
- J R Ward

Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love... love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too. -Tohrment
- J R Ward

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