“Shortly after I came out of the hospital, I dreamed that I was going to be executed. I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do if I was reprieved." Stephen Hawkins
“To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.” Ernest Becker
"You have within you the power to merge everything you have lived through – attempts, false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes – into your highest goal, with nothing left over." Friedrich Nietzsche
“Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.” Friedrich Nietzsche
"Always at home. -- One day we reach our goal - and we point with pride to the long journeys we took to reach it. In truth, we did not notice we were travelling. But we got so far because at each point we believed we were at home." Friedrich Nietzsche