A Quote by Marlene Dietrich

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Marlene Dietrich

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Anyone Duties Lacking Life Living Make Most Necessary Them Worth Worth Living

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Marlene Dietrich
American - Actress
December 27, 1901 - May 6, 1992

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

George Santayana

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Robert Fulghum

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Jeff Buckley

Most youth are lacking critical life skills that make them employable and, most importantly, able to keep a job - things like teamwork, decision-making, and time management.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

Winston Churchill

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

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

Walter Kirn

We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need occasionally to be away from our friends, our relatives, from the members of our immediate households. Such changes are good for us; they are good for them. We appreciate them better, they us, when we are away from them for a period, or they us.

Ralph Waldo Trine

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

Charles Warren Stoddard

Life expects of you duties which appear repugnant to you. You must now know that the most important thing is not duties but what permits you to be someone good and just. There are many who will say to you that this is a piece of asocial advice, but you only have to reply to them: When the forms of society are so hard and hostile to life, it is more important to be asocial than inhuman

Stig Dagerman

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Don't try to prove anything about yourself to anyone. It isn't necessary. Your worth shines through to others- know your worth.

Alexandra Stoddard

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.