Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes.
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That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried th... SOURCE UNKNOWN When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us. SOURCE UNKNOWN To fear death is to misunderstand life. SOURCE UNKNOWN Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others. SOURCE UNKNOWN It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to e... SOURCE UNKNOWN God's retirement plan is out of this world SOURCE UNKNOWN You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say. SOURCE UNKNOWN Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewrit... SOURCE UNKNOWN Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard... SOURCE UNKNOWN The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as... 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SOURCE UNKNOWN Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the... SOURCE UNKNOWN Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it. SOURCE UNKNOWN None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way ... SOURCE UNKNOWN Do it now. Then it's done. SOURCE UNKNOWN Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often SOURCE UNKNOWN Activity and sadness are incompatible. SOURCE UNKNOWN Backbone beats wishbone every time. SOURCE UNKNOWN Be both the gardener and the rose. SOURCE UNKNOWN Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the... SOURCE UNKNOWN Act, don't react! SOURCE UNKNOWN Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. SOURCE UNKNOWN Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too... 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SOURCE UNKNOWN Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning b... SOURCE UNKNOWN We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. SOURCE UNKNOWN When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagre... SOURCE UNKNOWN You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow. SOURCE UNKNOWN Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive. SOURCE UNKNOWN Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows. SOURCE UNKNOWN Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. SOURCE UNKNOWN Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. SOURCE UNKNOWN Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark. SOURCE UNKNOWN Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use. SOURCE UNKNOWN Know-how will surpass guess-how. SOURCE UNKNOWN A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed ... SOURCE UNKNOWN No man knows less than the man who knows it all SOURCE UNKNOWN There are no traffic jams in the second mile. SOURCE UNKNOWN The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams. SOURCE UNKNOWN The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee. SOURCE UNKNOWN When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there. SOURCE UNKNOWN Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle agai... SOURCE UNKNOWN If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through. SOURCE UNKNOWN It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes. SOURCE UNKNOWN Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself. SOURCE UNKNOWN Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement. SOURCE UNKNOWN The best way to end a war is not to begin it. SOURCE UNKNOWN Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun. SOURCE UNKNOWN Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God. SOURCE UNKNOWN Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading. SOURCE UNKNOWN Maintain peace with men, war with their vices. SOURCE UNKNOWN Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others. SOURCE UNKNOWN To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure. SOURCE UNKNOWN Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushe... SOURCE UNKNOWN Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity? SOURCE UNKNOWN Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a bas... SOURCE UNKNOWN The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today. 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