#ratio

Scared of death, you say? Maybe you wish to live forever? Perhaps you are missing the point of death, my friend. What is life without it? If you live like you're going to die tomorrow, truly live, then you will never really die. You become a part of this world, and will live as long as it does. If you live like you're never going to die, you may as well be dead. Death is a privilege, and you should learn to love it now, or fear it forever. ↗

— My friend

#inspirational #death

It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#compassion #god #hope #inspirational #journey

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious. ↗

— Iain Pears

#doctrine #education #freedom #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought

There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on fighting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#hope #inspirational #war #warrior #freedom

Failure is not an end-point, but amendment to suit your success ↗

— Binye Vincent

#faith #freedom #hope #inspiration #motivational

Freedom of action is disguised as a freedom of discipline. ↗

— Warren Cassell Jr.

#personal-growth #wisdom #freedom

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#critics #decisions #deliberations #many #mistake

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them. ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#inspirational #war #death

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#dreams

[...] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth. ↗

— A.C. Ping

#inspirational-life #spirituality #death