“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover
“The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.” — Herodotus
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” — Pablo Picasso
“Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back.” — Marcus Aurelius
“Death is not an ending. It is a transformation.” — Ming-Dao Deng
“I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated.” — Elon Musk
“Embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.” — Dan Millman
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.” — Virginia Woolf
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” — Gilbert Chesterton
“Only when one allows themself the right to die, do they then give yourself the permission to live.” — C. Sean McGee
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” — Wayne Gretzky
“To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.” — Alan Watts
“Better to live until you die.” — Dan Millman
“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.” — Alexandre Dumas
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ” — Albert Einstein
“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
“We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.” — Robert Greene
“Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't really live at all.” — Dan Millman
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.” — Dogen
“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.” — Rita Mae Brown
“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.” — Stephen Hawking
“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
“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
“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“A man with outward courage dares to die: a man with inner courage dares to live.” — Lao Tzu
“Think of yourself as dead. you have lived your life. Now, take what's left, and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius
“The future will be shaped by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.” — Robert F. Kennedy
“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
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile.” — Og Mandino
“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.” — Samuel Butler
“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses.” — Dan Millman
“There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.” — Chinese Proverb
“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
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening” — Zhuangzi
“Someday death will take us to another star.” — Vincent van Gogh
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.” — Alexander Pope
“Fear of death is fear of the Unknown.” — Adi Da Samraj
“The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.” — Deepak Chopra
“The dead receive more flowers than the living because regret is stronger than gratitude.” — Anne Frank
“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
“When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.” — Robert Greene
“A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.” — Robert F. Kennedy
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” — Sigmund Freud
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“To live is to be willing to die over and over again.” — Pema Chodron
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — Gilbert Chesterton
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