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Worth Living Quotes

Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for. Joseph Heller
Nately was instantly up in arms again. "There is nothing so absurd about risking your life for your country!" he declared."Isn't there?" asked the old man. "What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be... Joseph Heller
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. Mercedes Lackey
The rescue of drowning men i? a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. It seems to me that all political duties (among which I include military duties) are of this kind. A man may have to die for our country, but no man must, in an exclusive sense, live for his country. C. S. Lewis
Walter Benjamin quote: "The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that..."
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. Walter Benjamin
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. Henri Poincare
Tom Robbins quote: "There are many things worth living for, a few things worth..."
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. Tom Robbins
George Bernard Shaw quote: "It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life..."
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having. George Bernard Shaw
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions. Albert Camus
Julia Cameron quote: "We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living,..."
We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining. Julia Cameron
There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE. Umberto Eco
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love. Johnny Depp
Joseph Heller quote: "...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for."
...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for. Joseph Heller
A life worth living, and work worth doing - that is what I want for children (and all people), not just, or not even, something called 'a better education. John Holt
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with. Stephen Fry

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