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"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."
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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers."
"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."
"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do."
"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well."
"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."
"I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them."
"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."
"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
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