What keeps me alive

The constant struggle for search of meaning is dreadful. It’s pleasing sometimes, but mostly it is painful. One immediately gets happy because he feels that he has found the meaning of life, but the false illusion shatters away and leaves the man in much more pain than before. The feeling of closure becomes a dream.

Even after looking in all directions, in things, in theories, in places, one returns home to the same question. The feeling of hopelessness becomes frequent. That one may never find the real meaning and has wasted it’s whole life. This makes him more mentally instable.

So should one stop searching and ignore the question. 

I believe, that would be lying to oneself on the face. An unexamined life is not worth living. Isn’t "investigating" in itself a meaning. To look for the truth, what a noble thing to do. A fulfilling thing. And are we here in this universe, to only find joy and happiness. Can pain not be as important part of life as pleasure. Every component has its counter opposition in existence. Like white and black, like prey and hunter, like water and fire etc. Maybe the opposite for the question of meaning of life is the most powerful opposition ever. One losses hope very soon, but maybe if we give it a good fight, we can find it. 

To look for the meaning of life, is not easy. As everything looks like an answer to it. But if one dedicates oneself, it can see clearly. One does not need a teacher who Shows him the path, as one can become a guide to himself. 

In the process of search of meaning, one should live with its own rules. For one being, the meaning might be different and for other, different. But don’t fall for a easy meaning anyhow. Look for it. 

Use your logic, rationality and mind wisely. Maybe we are very near to the meaning. 

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Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a german philosopher born in 1844. He is one of the greatest philosopher of all times. His writings cover topics like power, nihilism, truth, values and overcoming oneself. 

Here's a list of some of my favorite quotes by him.

1) He who has a why to live can bear almost any how

2) In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

3) To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

4) Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.

5) The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

6) A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

7) That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

8) In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

9) If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

10) There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

11) There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

12) A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

13) You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

14) No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

15) He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

16) Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

17) Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

18) The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

19) Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or 

God merely a mistake of man?

20) Man is the cruelest animal.

21) A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

22) Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

23) The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

24) Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

25) Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man

26) I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

27) Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

28) There are no facts, only interpretations.

29) The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

30)  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

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