Shared Read - Quotes - RaVai

What is born will die. What has been gathered will be dispensed. What has been accumulated will be exhausted. What has been built-up, will collapse. And what has been high will be brought low.---Sogyal Rinpoche

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well----Plato

Our death is our wedding with eternity.---Rumi

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong as well as useless to resist.---Stewart Aslop

The existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of a being is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning and the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.---Lord Buddha

To die proudly, when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time with a clear head and with joyfulness consummated in the midst of children and witnesses, so that an actual leave-taking is possible, while he who is leaving is still there.--Friedrich Nietzsche

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.--Albert Einstein

Born at the banquet of Gods, love has, of necessity, been eternally in existence, for it springs from the intentions of the soul towards its best, towards the good, as long as soul has been, love has been.---Plotinus

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.--Mother Theresa

He who is not false to what is in his heart becomes the votary of truth. Thereby, he gains a place in the hearts of all.

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