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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

— Lord Byron

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Life is essentially a question of values.

— Meir Kahane

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

— R. D. Laing

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

— Parker Palmer

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

— Tom Robbins

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

— Annie Lennox

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

— Zane Grey

The values of life are most important.

— Leonardo Del Vecchio

✗Opposing Perspectives

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

— Jack London

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

— Henry David Thoreau