Worth Quotes (page 18)

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• life
• thinking
• understanding

Look--I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? Elizabeth Gilbert

• study
• philosophy
• peace

philosophyI studied philosophy for four years. But I'd trade everything I learned for this passage... quoted in the Britannica:'But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into... A. J. Jacobs

• adventure
• comforting
• adventurous

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort Paulo Coelho

• new
• chance
• life

...the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life. Richard Ford

• end
• hath
• causing

Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end. William Shakespeare

• work
• effort
• lifetime

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort. Fred Rogers

• engineering
• saying
• ironic

All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John. J. M. Barrie

• boats
• about
• boat

There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats. Kenneth Grahame

• country
• towns
• countries

A day in the country is worth a month in town Christina G. Rossetti

• him
• reading
• mood

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. Virginia Woolf

• friends
• friend
• die

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. Mark Twain

• bad
• cheer
• thinking

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue. C. S. Lewis

• together
• shout
• togetherness

They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• physics
• war
• inspirational

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

• future
• grace
• experience

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future. John Piper