„To understand life, and love it to its depths in a living being, that is the being's task, and that his masterpiece“

„Being a people pleaser is a fruitless task; love is love. There's no debating that concept.“

—  Frances Bean Cobain American artist 1992

As quoted by NOH8 Campaign, 8 October 2014 https://twitter.com/NOH8Campaign/status/519932186242596865
See also Brett Buchanan, " Frances Bean Cobain Featured In New NOH8 Campaign Photo http://www.alternativenation.net/frances-bean-cobain-new-noh8-campaign/", Alternative Nation (8 October 2014)
Twitter https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666 posts

„Every living being on earth loves life above all else.“

—  Hazrat Inayat Khan Indian Sufi 1882 - 1927

The Unity of Religious Ideals, Part I : Seeking for the Ideal
Kontext: Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.

„God bestows His Compassion upon all beings, always, and His Love and His Way is to bring lives together by pressing them together. God possesses a Love which spreads and intermingles with all lives. In the same way, among human beings there is also such a true Love, such a true, real feeling. When that Love is operating, when it is working, then it is God's work to take it and put it in its appropriate place. That is the Form of Love. That Love, that Divine Love, has brought us together as one.“

—  Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Sri Lankan Sufi leader 1900 - 1986

Truth & Light: Brief Explanations (1974)

„In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being.“

—  Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943

In 'The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy', Century Illustrated Magazine (Jun 1900), 60, No. 2, 180.

„Now understand the deepest essence of your soul, what 'soul' is. Soul is a being that can be beheld by God and by which, again, God can be beheld. Soul is also a being that wishes to content God … The soul is a bottomless abyss in which God suffices to himself; and his own self-sufficiency ever finds fruition to the full in this soul, as the soul, for its part, ever does in him. Soul is a way for the passage of God from his depths to his liberty; and God is a way for the passage of the soul into its liberty, that is, into his inmost depths, which cannot be touched except by the soul's abyss.“

—  Hadewijch 13th-century Dutch poet and mystic 1200 - 1260

Letter XVIII.
Letters

„Being able to love others is a form of blessing. Being able to understand others is a form of wisdom.“

—  Jun Hong Lu Australian Buddhist leader 1959

Singapore, (17 February 2017)[citation needed].

„Living beings who love themselves no more ardently than they love others are prodigies, and it will never be otherwise so long as beings are born as they are and live in like conditions.“

—  J. Howard Moore 1862 - 1916

Quelle: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), Individual Culture, p. 261

„I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving… Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.“

—  George Sand French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin 1804 - 1876

„Youth instinctively understand the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.“

—  Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1911 - 1980

1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)

„Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.“

—  Alyson Nöel, buch Blue Moon

Quelle: Blue Moon

„Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings.“

—  Abraham Joshua Heschel Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi 1907 - 1972

Quelle: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Manipulation and appreciation, p. 81 -->
Kontext: Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

„The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.“

—  Paulo Coelho, buch Elf Minuten

Quelle: Eleven Minutes

„Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, buch The Choice

Quelle: The Choice

„The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.“

—  Steven Pressfield United States Marine 1943

Quelle: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

„What changed for me was – I don’t want to go through life being scared of it, being scared of love, being scared of rejection, being scared of failure.“

—  Chris Martin musician, co-founder of Coldplay 1977

On a Zane Lowe interview, 2014. source https://youtube.com/watch?v=9pF7bS_4JnE

„The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.“

—  Socrates classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470 - -399 v.Chr

38a
Variant translations:
(More closely) The unexamining life is not worth living for a human being
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
The unexamined life is not the life for man.
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.<!--Translated by W. H. D. Rouse-->
Plato, Apology
Original: (el) ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ (ho de anexetastos bios ou biôtos anthrôpôi)

„And having in thy life-depth thrown
Being and suffering (which are one),
As a child drops his pebble small
Down some deep well, and hears it fall
Smiling — so I. THY DAYS GO ON.“

—  Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet, author 1806 - 1861

St. 23 -24.
De Profundis (1862)
Kontext: p>I praise Thee while my days go on;
I love Thee while my days go on:
Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost,
With emptied arms and treasure lost,
I thank Thee while my days go on.And having in thy life-depth thrown
Being and suffering (which are one),
As a child drops his pebble small
Down some deep well, and hears it fall
Smiling — so I. THY DAYS GO ON.</p

„The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.“

—  Hugh Walpole New Zealand writer 1884 - 1941

As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 597

„The existential way of understanding human beings has some illustrious progenitors in Western history, such as Socrates in his dialogues, Augustine in his depth-psychological analyses of the self, Pascal in his struggle to find a place for the “heart’s reasons which the reason knows not of.”“

—  Rollo May US psychiatrist 1909 - 1994

But it arose specifically just over a hundred years ago in Kierkegaard’s violent protest against the reigning rationalism of his day Hegel’s “totalitarianism of reason,” to use Maritain’s phrase. Kierkegaard proclaimed that Hegel’s identification of abstract truth with reality was an illusion and amounted to trickery. “Truth exists,” wrote Kierkegaard, “only as the individual himself produces it in action.”
Quelle: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 49