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“Don’t look down on death, but welcome it. It too is one of the things required by nature. Like youth and old age. Like growth and maturity. Like a new set of teeth, a beard, the first gray hair. Like sex and pregnancy and childbirth. Like all the other physical changes at each stage of life, our dissolution is no different. So this is how a thoughtful person should await death: not with indifference, not with impatience, not with disdain, but simply viewing it as one of the things that happen to us. Now you anticipate the child’s emergence from its mother’s womb; that’s how you should await the hour when your soul will emerge from its compartment. Or perhaps you need some tidy aphorism to tuck away in the back of your mind. Well, consider two things that should reconcile you to death: the nature of the things you’ll leave behind you, and the kind of people you’ll no longer be mixed up with. There’s no need to feel resentment toward them—in fact, you should look out for their well-bein
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Marcus Aurelius
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“I was not afraid of darkness
When I was in you.” Luffina Lourduraj |
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“If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care: to whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how and when and where. Your loving mother, C. L. Ingalls.”
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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
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“Study the past if you would define the future.”
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“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
