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" Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. "

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" As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death. "

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" Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. "

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" The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection. "

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" Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. "

" I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. "

" Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body. "

" Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death! "

" Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. "

Ernest Hemingway

" An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. "

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" My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me. "

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" Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. "

" I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. "

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