#rational

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#death #inspirational #life #nice #death

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#motto #death

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. ↗

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

#death

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away ↗

— Will Smith

#death

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#inspirational #love #made-me-cry #nobility #sacrifice

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#ideas #inspirational #death

Uh, listen here mister. We got no way understandin’ this world. We got about as much sense of it as bird flyin’ in the sky. There’s a lot that bird don't know, though it don’t change the fact the world is happenin’ to him all the same. What I'm tryin’ to say is, is that the course of your life it is changing, you don't even see it... ↗

— Forrest Bondurant

#lawless #movies #change

You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?" I am one. Death is my enemy." Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter… like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger." Yup. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#cute #inspirational #death

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#death

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go. ↗

— John Boyne

#friendship #holocaust #inspirational #life #love