Death

Vincent Van Gogh
“Someday death will take us to another star.” — Vincent van Gogh
Morihei Ueshiba
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” — Morihei Ueshiba
Robert Greene
“When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.” — Robert Greene
Gilbert Chesterton
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” — Gilbert Chesterton
D. H. Lawrence
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.” — D. H. Lawrence
Pema Chodron
“To live is to be willing to die over and over again.” — Pema Chodron
Dan Millman
“Embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.” — Dan Millman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Albert Einstein
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” — Albert Einstein
Dogen
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.” — Dogen
Theodore Roosevelt
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Albus Dumbledore
“It's the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” — Albus Dumbledore
Rita Mae Brown
“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.” — Rita Mae Brown
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert Kiyosaki
“Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.” — Robert Kiyosaki
Henry David Thoreau
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau
Lao Tzu
“A man with outward courage dares to die: a man with inner courage dares to live.” — Lao Tzu
Benjamin Mays
“Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.” — Benjamin Mays
Ming-dao Deng
“Death is not an ending. It is a transformation.” — Ming-Dao Deng
Robert F. Kennedy
“A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.” — Robert F. Kennedy
Bob Marley
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.” — Bob Marley
Virginia Woolf
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.” — Virginia Woolf
Dan Millman
“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses.” — Dan Millman
Dan Millman
“Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't really live at all.” — Dan Millman
Adi Da Samraj
“Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity. Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while alive, and fear of death dissolves.” — Adi Da Samraj
Marcus Aurelius
“Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back.” — Marcus Aurelius
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Napoleon Hill
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” — Napoleon Hill
Gilbert Chesterton
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” — Gilbert Chesterton
Confucius
“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.” — Confucius
Steve Jobs
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” — Steve Jobs
Anne Frank
“The dead receive more flowers than the living because regret is stronger than gratitude.” — Anne Frank
Robert Greene
“We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.” — Robert Greene
Samuel Butler
“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.” — Samuel Butler
Og Mandino
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile.” — Og Mandino
Sigmund Freud
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” — Sigmund Freud
Herbert Hoover
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover
Alexandre Dumas
“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.” — Alexandre Dumas
Bhagavad Gita
“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.” — Bhagavad Gita
C. Sean Mcgee
“Only when one allows themself the right to die, do they then give yourself the permission to live.” — C. Sean McGee
Chinese Proverb
“There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.” — Chinese Proverb
Zhuangzi
“Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.” — Zhuangzi
Alexander Pope
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.” — Alexander Pope
Alan Watts
“To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.” — Alan Watts
Aristotle
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” — Aristotle
Gilbert Chesterton
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — Gilbert Chesterton
Socrates
“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” — Socrates
Gilbert Chesterton
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” — Gilbert Chesterton
Marcus Aurelius
“Think of yourself as dead. you have lived your life. Now, take what's left, and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius
Publilius Syrus
“The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself.” — Publilius Syrus

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