Worth It Quotes (page 12)

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• effort
• fear
• light

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light. Hugh Prather

• wellness
• night
• ice cream

It is worth noting that at this time, I had been doing Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live for two full seasons. I am not recognized by anyone. Well, I am recognized by the guy who refills the soft-serve ice cream machine by the pool, but not for being on TV, just for lingering. Tina Fey

• depression
• men
• little

It's almost been worth this depression to find out how little our big men know. Will Rogers

• writing
• determination
• effort

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort. Joyce Carol Oates

• always
• worthwhile
• awareness

Its always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. Malcolm Forbes

• reading
• tragedies
• is it worth it

it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading... Jane Austen

• enough
• true
• self

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth. Albert Schweitzer

• different
• reality
• science

It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• imperfection
• us
• imperfectly

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always. Henry David Thoreau

• touching
• is it worth it
• worth

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching Oscar Wilde

• cat
• world
• not worth it

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Henry David Thoreau

• tired
• friend
• friends

It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something. The task is to persevere in my solitude, to stay in my cell until all my seductive visitors get tired of pounding on my door and leave me alone. The wisdom of the desert is that the confrontation with our own frightening... Henri Nouwen

• chance
• good
• world

it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my... Edward Abbey

• happy
• saying
• worth

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect. Daniel Keys Moran

• people
• sometimes
• signs

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. Miles Franklin