Quotes About Worthwhile

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, But that is all.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'But that is all.

All worthwhilemedical research and every medicine man's intuition is part of the samequest for knowledge of the same elusive healing energy.

I have come to believe that nothing is ever wasted; out of mistakes or through mistakes, something quite worthwhile can come, in my case the see of another novel.

It was worth while, truly," added the young man with a melancholy smile, "to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.

... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free — our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.

One might argue then that in order to learn, one must increase survival anxiety, yet this only increases our overall tension because the sources of learning anxiety do not go away. To facilitate new learning, we need to decrease learning anxiety. We need to feel that a new behavior or practice is worthwhile, not threatening, and possible to learn.

Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage near the sea, far removed from developers, removed from Lapham. And, there is always Vermont. For everyone, in every time of despairing optimism, there is always Vermont.

Pliny paid for his phenomena!...I've paid a bit, too...everything worthwhile has its cost!...if it's free, you're down with the shithead fraternity! blabbermouths, charlatans, the whole gang!...into the crapper with 'em! every one! right in the shitter!...it's unlistenable!...just a bunch of farts!...I'm telling you!...

It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.

Stefan Collini comments that the "fallacy of accountability" is "the belief that the process of reporting on an activity in the approved form provides some guarantee that something worthwhile has been properly done" (What Are Universities For? 108). The

The cost you will pay to achieve the goal is worthwhile.

The challenge is what makes the success worthwhile.

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder?or impossible?to lose.

even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

A wise merely smiles when something is either said or done worthwhile; The fools usually laugh even when someone tries to beguile them.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

It's not an easy job, but the satisfaction an actor feels when he has done a good job and the money make it worth while.

What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers, and everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first.