"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." The Analects of Confucius

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how Man's Search For Meaning

But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear. On Duties

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. Ecce Homo