#insp

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#death

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#life #death

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#inspirational #joy #purpose #death

Death ends a life, not a relationship ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#death

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#essays #humor #inspirational #nature-writing #weasels

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#death

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us. ↗

— Mark Rowlands

#defiance #heart #inspiring #learning #philosophy

I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said. ↗

— Derek Landy

#inspector-me #skulduggery #death

When we talk about sin, we need to understand what sin is. Sin is not God says 'you can't do this' because He wants to take something away from you. He says: "If you do this, it will be death. If you do this, it will be life." And then He says: "Please, choose life, so that you can live. I've made you, I know how you work. I've made this whole Earth, I know how it works. Please, choose life. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#god #inspirational #lacey-mosley #life #life-and-death

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#inspirational #life-and-death #beauty