Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable for it is the sign of a rational being.
Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you too. It's so important I mean and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics which is a challenge right? Math is hard.
Against my will in the course of my travels the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest the soldier the poet. To know to kill to create.
Wealth religion military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Obviously a long-distance relationship is hard. But like anything worth having you make it work.
In human relationships kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers its poets and its artists.
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth and then we are angry at being undervalued.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking 'I'm not worthy ' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us.
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
I'm not an old experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.