Realizing that it's only midterm season can put a veil of melancholy over our heads. This entire semester might seem utterly pointless to you; after all, what's the point? Luckily with an optimistic and existential view of the world, the end of the semester can seem a bit more bearable.
"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted." — Jack Kerouac
"There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first." —Jim Morrison
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." — Steve Jobs
"Do not search for the meaning of life around you; it is self-defined. If you are given the chance to make a choice, would you surrender the opportunity to your surroundings? It is often incorrect and will be far worse than whatever you could create for yourself. Be your own deciding factor." — Lawrence Beall
"If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life." — Charles Bukowski 
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation." — Neil Degrasse Tyson
“The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached it goal either. A parable.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Struggle is what it means to be alive and free." — David Budbill
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.” — Albert Camus
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
