Amber

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

“I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Homeland