#dying

...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. ↗

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#inspirational #inspirational

Embrace the path your loved one's story has taken, and be part of the culture shift that acknowledges dying as part of living. ↗

— Carrie Chavez Hansen

#dying-well #inspirational #life-story #inspirational

Life's funny chucklehead. You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something-something that really matters-in the end you die for nothing. ↗

— Andrew Klavan

#life #life-worth-living #worth-dying-for #inspirational

Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for." --Levi ↗

— Jill Williamson

#inspirational #living #inspirational

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#forbidden #god #him #his #marriage

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. ↗

— Kate Smith

#dying #i #last #many #myself

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#between #brings #choose #courses #death

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something. ↗

— John Stossel

#dying #free #free person #i #ought

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying? ↗

— John Stossel

#choices #country #dying #even #free

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#dying #forgetting #how #humility #knowledge