"A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - African Proverb
While everyone in this world strives to get somewhere and become someone, only to leave it all behind after death, you aim for the supreme stage of nothingness. Live this life as light and empty as the number zero. We are no different from a pot. It is not the decorations outside but the emptiness inside that holds us straight. Just like that, it is not what we aspire to achieve but the consciousness of nothingness that keeps us going.
--Elif shafak
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
---Viktor E. Frankl
Everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
--Franz Kafka
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
― Emil M. Coiran