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Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I felt that night, on the stage, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? (p. 145)
“If a thing is worth having, it's worth cheating for.”
My Little Chickadee (1940)
“Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”
Source: Heaven, Texas
1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
Context: Of course, the worst of all lives is the vicious life; the life of a man who becomes a positive addition to the forces of evil in a community. Next to that and when I am speaking to people who, by birth and training and standing, ought to amount to a great deal, I have a right to say only second to it in criminality comes the life of mere vapid ease, the ignoble life of a man who desires nothing from his years but that they shall be led with the least effort, the least trouble, the greatest amount of physical enjoyment or intellectual enjoyment of a mere dilettante type. The life that is worth living, and the only life that is worth living, is the life of effort, the life of effort to attain what is worth striving for.
“Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.”
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XII: Raising Money
“Every single individual worth what he thinks he is worth.”
Original: Ogni singolo individuo vale quanto pensa di valere.
Source: prevale.net