#dying

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#biggest #book #dying #me #mom

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying. ↗

— Jane Badler

#experience #important #just #life #life experience

But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection. [Henry V, Act IV Scene I] ↗

— William Shakespeare

#responsibility #death

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#death #difference #dying #enlightenment #fundamental

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. ↗

— Richard Barnfield

#defying #denying #dying #faith #heart

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#immortality #death

They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#death-and-dying #death-of-a-loved-one #sorrow #unhappiness #death

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#circumstances #dying #either #faculty #marvelous

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#better #everywhere #excellence #exemplary #found

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever. ↗

— Peter Berg

#been #fan #father #forever #historian