„My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think;“

— Virginia Woolf

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„We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me — and I think for all of us — not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream. I think the life which we have fashioned in America, and which has fashioned us — the forms we made, the cells that grew, the honeycomb that was created — was self-destructive in its nature, and must be destroyed. I think these forms are dying, and must die, just as I know that America and the people in it are deathless, undiscovered, and immortal, and must live.“
— Thomas Wolfe
„So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.“
— Paulo Coelho
„The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.“
— Oprah Winfrey