„You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.“

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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„My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.“
— Timothy Leary
„And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.“
— Jim Butcher
„The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois