Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.
There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
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.
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
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