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“The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.”

Way Love Life Inspirational Giving Death Goal Taken Our Lives One Thing Dying Prove Aging Worthy Live Life Inspirational Love Proven

Author:Forrest Church

“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.”

“What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!”

Life Should Believe Humans May Made Moments Born Dying Privilege Edges Pleasant March Permission Convenient Puppets Precipice Life On The Edge

Author:Kate Langley Bosher

“I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.”

“Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.”

Life May Dies Enjoy Dying Products

Author:Bernie Siegel

“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.”

Men World Life Long Certain Next Dying Isolation Tombs Desolate Nightfall

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.”

Life Matter Death Gone Dying Life Death

Book:The Collected Shorter Plays

Source: The Collected Shorter Plays

“Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!”

Men Want Life Said Wish Existence Wise Achieve Dying Immortality Substitutes Woody Triviality Very Wise

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We also have people dying longer, we are able to keep people alive without much quality of life in many cases. We haven't done a great job of making healthspan match up with lifespan, which is both miserable and unbelievably costly - and frightening.”

People Life Done Able Jobs Quality Cases Alive Dying Havens Miserable Frightening Quality Of Life Great Job People Dying

Author:Ken Dychtwald

“My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.”

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Author:Bikram Choudhury

“Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?”

Ifs Thinking Life Dying Guarantees

Author:Tracey Garvis-Graves

“The act of dying is one of the acts of life.”

Life Dying Philosophical

Book:Meditations: with selected correspondence

Source: Meditations: with selected correspondence