- "There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
- "To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
- "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
- "We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
- "To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
- "There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."
- "The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
- "The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."
- "Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."
- "Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world."
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