Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."
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Death
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Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it."
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles"
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"There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left."
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"If the truth shall kill them, let them die."
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
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"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it."
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"You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'"
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
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"We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more."
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"Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years."
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"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life."
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"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend."
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"Find what you love and let it kill you."
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"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
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"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
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"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."
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"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."
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"They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name."
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"Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy."
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"Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?"
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"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
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