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Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
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A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson
Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
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Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
I Cheat Death by Enjoying Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss.
It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
We come this way but once.
We can either tiptoe through life
and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving
our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
Careers and relationships also have their cycles
of birth, growth, and death -
to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us all be brave enough
to die the death of a martyr,
but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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