#worth

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring? ↗

— Richard Owen Cambridge

#bring #happiness #worth

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work. ↗

— David Cameron

#going #into #millions #pounds #spend

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#began #dawned #doing #got #i

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us. ↗

— Victor Cherbuliez

#eyes #half #hearts #joy #keep

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#anything #i #proud #think #unworthy

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#bother #kill #killing #late #since

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#convince #did #difficult #finally #get

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#begets #emulation #envy #great #great souls

Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure and bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off the walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of the two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you are doing by how well you sleep at night...and what your dreams are like. ↗

— Stephen King

#inspirational #intention #life #rita-hayworth #shawshank-redemption

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#giving #manner #more #than #worth