worthwhile Quotes

“...because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”

“You are saving their lives for a life not worth living.”

“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”

“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”

“Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”

″‘That lame man you saw - is he grateful now? Is it worth it to get on his feet and spend the rest of his life dragging burdens like a mule?‘”

“I could easily fall in love with the way he was looking at me. Like I was something special; something worth fighting for.”

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”

“The circumstances of his life, and a certain native shrewdness, made him better worth talking to than many men, morally and socially his betters, whose horizon was bounded by the Battery and the Central Park. How should anyone coming from a wider world not feel the difference and be attracted by it?”

“It’s only the trappings of aristocracy that I find worthwhile-the fine furniture, the paintings, the silver- the very things they have to sell when the money runs out.”

“To me, it seems the only pleasure in this world worth having is the joy we derive from living for those we love, and those we can help.”

But an actress! Harry! why didn’t you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?”

“Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about,”

And you never can be sorry for the trouble you took to learn them; for knowledge is worth more than anything there is in the world; it’s what makes great men and good men; you’ll be a great man and a good man yourself, some day, Thomas...”