I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.Woody Allen
Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence.Marcus Aurelius
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.Wayne Dyer
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.Angelina Jolie
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.Richard Wright
There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound ; for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.Miguel de Unamuno
Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn’t belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it’s life itself defending itself.Julio Cortázar
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.George Bernard Shaw
Five minutes after birth, they decide your name, religion, nationality and sect. And you spend the rest of your life defending what you did not choose.Arthur Schopenhauer
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.Deepak Chopra
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.Joseph Campbell
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much... The life we receive is not short but we make it so.Lucius Annaeus Seneca