„A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.“

— Albert Einstein

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„When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
„The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine.“
— Rollo May
„I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.“
— Maya Angelou
„This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.“
— Haruki Murakami
„I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.“
— Joseph Campbell
„This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.“
— Corrie ten Boom
„When the Superior Man (Junzi) eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."“
— Confucius
„You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.“
— Stephen King