Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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.
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.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
May you live all the days of your life.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
While there's life, there is hope.
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!
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