“You want to live but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying and tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?” — Seneca
“Only when one allows themself the right to die, do they then give yourself the permission to live.” — C. Sean McGee
“Death is not an ending. It is a transformation.” — Ming-Dao Deng
“There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.” — Chinese Proverb
“As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero.” — Kabir
“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ” — Franz Kafka
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Your life will never be the same again.” — Og Mandino
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” — Gilbert Chesterton
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.” — Bob Marley
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening” — Zhuangzi
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” — Sigmund Freud
“Better to live until you die.” — Dan Millman
“The soul is neither born, and nor does it die.” — Bhagavad Gita
“Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.” — Zhuangzi
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” — Pablo Picasso
“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.” — Alexander Pope
“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses.” — Dan Millman
“The future will be shaped by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.” — Robert F. Kennedy
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” — Morihei Ueshiba
“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
“Stuff your eyes with wonder... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” — Ray Bradbury
“Fear of death is fear of the Unknown.” — Adi Da Samraj
“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.” — Alexandre Dumas
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.” — Virginia Woolf
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile.” — Og Mandino
“Embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.” — Dan Millman
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ” — Albert Einstein
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.” — Dogen
“When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.” — Robert Greene
“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.” — Stephen Hawking
“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.” — Kabir
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle
“Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back.” — Marcus Aurelius
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — Gilbert Chesterton
“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
“Think of yourself as dead. you have lived your life. Now, take what's left, and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” — Aristotle
“It's the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” — Albus Dumbledore
“The dead receive more flowers than the living because regret is stronger than gratitude.” — Anne Frank
“Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.” — Heraclitus
“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
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” — Gilbert Chesterton
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.” — D. H. Lawrence
“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
“A man with outward courage dares to die: a man with inner courage dares to live.” — Lao Tzu
“Someday death will take us to another star.” — Vincent van Gogh
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