Joy rather than happiness is the goal of life for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

If your faith is opposed to experience to human learning and investigation it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also a Zen monk once said to me 'If you're not laughing then you're not getting it.'

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight eventually building up a different source of self-worth.