Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink."
Life Worth Living quotes
Life Worth Living
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Guy de Maupassant
Novelist
"It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living."
Elif Safak
Author
"I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"A life worth living is a life worth recording."
Plato
Philosopher
"The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being."
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"No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living."
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"I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living."
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"It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having."
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"The examined life is the only life worth living."
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"Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!"
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"One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living."
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"I know many lives worth living."
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