Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
For Christian Iosso, the pastor of the Scarborough Presbyterian Church, slipping his kayak into the Hudson in the company of his 15-year-old son, Jake, is one of the distinctive summer experiences that makes living here worthwhile.
The first is how people feel, the second, how they evaluate their lives and the third, a broader measure of "eudaimonics"(whether they feel their lives to be worthwhile and rewarding overall).
Londoners are least likely to consider their lives worthwhile, although unemployment, unsurprisingly, makes a bigger dent than where you live.
How could physicians not be affected by society's vision of what makes women's lives worthwhile?
As we approach the midnight hour, we can look back at our brief day and what stands out are not the moments of tranquillity, contentment, being at peace; what has made our lives worthwhile has been the stress, disturbance, the crises, the traumas, the heartaches, the helter-skelter rollercoaster of life, those shared moments of perturbation.
In The Pure Gold Baby, Drabble asks us to consider what it means to live a worthwhile life, to consider whether not knowing can sometimes be just as powerful as knowing.
Pain acceptance is the process of giving up the struggle with pain and learning to live a worthwhile life despite it.
If it saves two lives, it has to be worthwhile".
