Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.
It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.