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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.


Oliver Wendell Holmes

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CARL GUSTAV JUNG The spectacle takes us away from our routines. For at least a time, we feel part of something big, c...
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Because I have something worth living for.
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DELETE ACCOUNT You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like yo...
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WENDELL PHILLIPS When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need f...
ERIC HOFFER Faith is the emotional gap that bridges what something is in the heavenly realm, and what it is not ...
DR. JACINTA MPALYENKANA, PH.D, MBA If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things in yourself, for a...
GEORGE E. WOODBERRY Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel inse...
PIERO FERRUCCI To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know ...
MARSHA SINETAR There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD here is my sermon-we have to realized that sometimes, something or someone that we hated the most ar...
EJUMP - 2017 The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the e...
VIJAY KRISHNA Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yo...
GEORGE E WOODBERRY If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in your...
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ALEC BOURNE Only a life lived for others is worth living
ALBERT EINSTEIN Before operating on a patient's brain... I must first understand his mind: his identity, his val...
PAUL KALANITHI If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something ...
DONNA GODDARD It takes courage to discover,who really you are.It is experience not expectation that makes life wor...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Enthusiasm is something so positive.
CARINE ROITFELD Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you have a 98% chance of succeeding in something, its the other 2% that makes things interesting.
LIVVY ANDERSON And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today won’t be the same you that ma...
KATE BORNSTEIN Imagine for a moment a world with only you living in it. Would it be worth living in? We are all cre...
AVIS JOHN I think Heaven and afterlife is for the living; it's for the people that continue on and remembe...
ANDY BIERSACK "Life is an opportunity for us to contribute something that outlasts us and makes the world a better...
APOORVE DUBEY They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Lo...
CAROLINE B. COONEY Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
MARK TWAIN A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
JAMES BROUGHTON A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference ...
TONY BENN Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
TRAVIS BARKER I found myself thinking that perhaps there was something inexorable about the way events unfolded, a...
HANYA YANAGIHARA I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that som...
JIMMY CARTER Someone who helps rising ones faith and helps living in this world peaceful, is worth meeting again ...
SHIHAB KAZI "A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is ...
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthus...
PATRICK KAVANAGH It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthus...
PATRICK KAVANAUGH ...Life is what you make of it, there is no such thing as a "Common" most important thing in life, b...
J C A ROWE I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd mo...
ANTHONY BURGESS Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
MARK TWAIN China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translate...
GIORGIO ARMANI No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
SOURCE UNKNOWN No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
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JEFF BUCKLEY The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth ...
AMY GRANT Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man woul...
MARTIN LUTHER He considered that immortality was the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something yo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
ALI SMITH What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek f...
ZANE GREY We all do not know what actually we look for in life,but we all find something missing in life.
ANUJ SOMANY I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And becau...
CONOR MCPHERSON Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing throu...
A.J. DARKHOLME We need to identify & correct bad elements in us and in order to eliminate that we must listen to ou...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth read...
SUSAN SONTAG It makes us very proud of him. It makes me realize that even in David's death, he's still doing some...
RICHARD KOKJOHN It felt important to be able to pick up and go whenever this endless stirring and inevitable craving...
JACKIE HAZE Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living
MARK TWAIN Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
SAMUEL BUTLER What makes a man is the choices he makes, when he decides to start something and how he controls its...
SEAN INTIOMALE Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
ZENDAYA Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, ...
GEORGE MULLER If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
BARRY MANN A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
KIRK HAMMETT You've got to learn something each day of your life, life is not easy but taking the easy way out do...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
GAVYN DAVIES I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding i...
LEA THOMPSON everything in life happen for a reason something that you cant change whatever the out come is you w...
THAI LAN NGUYEN To see something like this makes it more real. It strengthens my faith.... It's pretty powerful stuf...
BROCK KREITZBURG To think that he died for something that he believed in rather than something he didn't believe in m...
JAY GALLAGHER I don't want to party my life away. If you aren't living for something, you are wasting your life.
ELIZABETH KAISER Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only ...
ALFRED BESTER Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration,...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day lik...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul w...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are movi...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Age, like distance lends a double charm.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Man has will, but woman has her way.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us t...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low qualit...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
OLIVER WENDELL-HOLMES The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To think great thoughts, you must be heroes as well as idealists
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light
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