Mencius (a student of Confucius):
“Living is what I want; meaning is also what I want. If I cannot have both, I would rather take meaning than living. On the one hand, though life is what I want, there is something I want more than life.
That is why I do not cling to life at all cost.
On the other hand, though death is what I loathe, there is something I loathe more than death. Â Yet there are ways of remaining alive and ways of avoiding death to which a person will not resort.
In other words, there are things a person wants more than life and there are also things he or she loathes more than death.”
Anyone have any other interesting quotes they know?