James Hearst quotes

“Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.”
-- James Hearst

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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.”

“Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.”

“Life is like an analogy.”

“The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.”

“Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“Life is an incurable disease.”

Source : "To Dr. Scarborough" l. 111 (1656)

“Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.”