Worth Quotes (page 42)

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• wellness
• wells
• idiotic

Some idiotic things are well worth doing. Richard Ford

• lies
• experience
• true

The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought. Claude Bernard

• fighting
• world
• worldly

The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for. Ernest Hemingway

• unhappy
• likeness
• cowardice

A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it cowardice. W. Somerset Maugham

• view
• names
• pointed

[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dnouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dnouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention. Edgar Allan Poe

• love
• lovingly
• loving

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more. Alice Hoffman

• beautiful
• little
• surfing

The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own power. There's absolutely no way to do this without getting soaking wet or even banged up on the coral, but it's worth all the trouble because the beach here is so beautiful, so special Elizabeth Gilbert

• him
• beautiful
• rich

Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of. And she says, that lady rich and beautiful that I can never come near, 'Only put me in that empty place, only try how little I mind myself, only prove what a world of things I will do and bear for you, and... Charles Dickens

• love
• discrimination
• lovingly

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. Joan Didion

• life
• knowledge
• common

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. Albert Camus

• greatness
• pretty
• disrespect

It never occurred to me that any of these pleasures were a reward for being a pretty good kid, any more than I needed to restructure my life just to avoid an eternity of being spit-roasted on a subterranean barbecue. If this sounds flip, smug, or disrespectful, it's not meant to be. Obviously, there is great wisdom, beauty, and relevance in millennia worth of collected theological teaching from around the world. The question I'm grappling with is: why didn't these big themes and major... Michael J. Fox

• strength
• writing
• frustration

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 Gaines

• love
• reality
• aware

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging. Toni Morrison

• wonder
• understanding
• happy

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. Abraham Joshua Heschel

• life
• look
• mean

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Jung