Worth Quotes (page 46)

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• life
• best
• life and living

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living. Mark Twain

• today
• remembers
• make

Make today worth remembering. Zig Ziglar

• hurt
• justly
• got hurt

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley

• clever
• she
• feeling

For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt. Virginia Woolf

• good
• feeling
• sometimes

Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician. Mother Teresa

• dead
• deadly
• dead alive

Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead! Che Guevara

• scares
• just being you
• scare

Being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to. Jodi Picoult

• him
• good
• understanding

What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans wass that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was probably rooted in a belief that hed been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could... Neal Stephenson

• change
• imagination
• thinking

T.S. Eliot deems dangerous the tendency "to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having been capable of preservation in perpetuity". "Tradition without intelligence, he challenges, "is not worth having. T. S. Eliot

• possessing
• quitting
• possessiveness

No one worth possessing can quite be possessed Sara Teasdale

• discrimination
• communication
• to live

Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her--of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated--he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch. Edith Wharton

• education
• understanding
• wonder

Education is a wonderful thing, provided you understand that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught. Oscar Wilde

• teacher
• little
• she

I remember my mother telling me that, when she was a little girl in Catholic school, the nuns used to hit her left hand every time she wrote with it. Nowadays, if a teacher did that, she'd probably be arrested for child abuse. The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually be like handwriting: there's no right or wrong way to do it. We're all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he's right or left handed. After... Jodi Picoult

• life
• play
• common

The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls. Nora Roberts

• she
• bad
• affection

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation. Jane Austen