To live means to be born every minute.

Birth - not a single act; birth - is a process. The purpose of life is to be born completely, but because of the special tragic element of it, most of us still die before time to be born in such a way. To live means to be born every minute. When terminated birth, death occurs. Physiologically, our cell system is in a constant process of birth; but psychologically most of us at a certain point ceases to be born. Some people are born completely stillborn; they continue to live only physiologically, psychologically while in the depths of their being hidden desire to return to the womb, to the land of darkness, into death; they are mad or almost insane. Many others continue to move along the path of life, but they are unable to fully cut the umbilical cord, as it were, and remain in a state of symbiotic attachment to mother, to father, to the family, to the race, to the state, to its position, to money, to the deities, etc ., they never fully manifest themselves in the form - and thus, never fully born.

Erich Fromm - Nature welfare