Is It Worth It Quotes:

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Spiritual Development, Woman Worth

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Positive, Strength, People, Importunate, Improve Self Esteem

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

- William James

source: William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

topic: Life, Positive, Encouraging, Live Life To Its Fullest, Afraid Of Life

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

- Erica Jong

source: Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, You Don't Love Me, Long Relationship

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Times Have Changed

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying, Understanding Yourself, Self Healing

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

- Bindi Irwin

source: Instagram post by Bindi Irwin @bindisueirwin, www.instagram.com. June 2, 2015.

topic: Needs, Accepting Yourself, Accepted, Self Healing, Inspiring Self Esteem

Do you know how powerful you are?

- Puff Daddy

source: "10 Quotes From Diddy’s Howard Commencement Speech" by Iyana Robertson, www.vibe.com. May 11, 2014.

topic: Powerful, Inspiring Self Esteem, Is It Worth It, My Self Worth, Love My Self

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem, My Own Life, Inspiring Self Esteem

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

- Nathaniel Branden

topic: Inspirational, Self Esteem, Caring, Inspiring Self Esteem, Is It Worth It

Nothing is worth more than this day.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Bad Day, Garden, Carpe Diem, Is It Worth It, Past And Present

One today is worth two tomorrows.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Time, Two, Today, Live In The Now, Stop Procrastination

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Inspirational, Powerful, Very Powerful, Inspiring Self Esteem, Is It Worth It

Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

- William P. Young

topic: Hurt, Pain, Son, Is It Worth It, Wounds And Scars

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together

- Roger McGough

topic: Thinking, Yes You Can, Together, Is It Worth It

Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

- Umberto Eco

source: "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana". Book by Umberto Eco, 2004.

topic: Life, Years, People, Is It Worth It

Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.

- Miranda July

source: Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, People, Silence, Is It Worth It

The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?

- Robert Bateman

topic: Important, Planets, Worth It, Is It Worth It, Important Questions

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

- Nikki Giovanni

source: Nikki Giovanni (1975). “The women and the men”, William Morrow &Company

topic: Thinking, Typewriters, Causes, Is It Worth It

You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?

- Richard Bach

topic: Given, Whole Life, Persons, Is It Worth It