The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.
– Kilroy J Oldster
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- I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die. – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
- Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to face our illusions and live a true life. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Fearing failure is fearing life. Failure is a great way to learn from life. – Debasish Mridha
- Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. – Orson Scott Card
- Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy. – Kilroy J Oldster
- The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-”that is every man’s tragedy. – Philip Roth
- Life and death issues are a universal concern. A person can learn about life by investigating the psychological and social aspects related to dying. – Kilroy J Oldster
- I’m convinced that there is nothing -‹truly good. Hell, sunshine can wilt a flower. – Kay Whitley
- This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn. – Osho
- Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in. – Matt Chandler
- Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy! – George Foster
- Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man’s life, but the end of a book of man, the beautiful conclusion to his yearnings. – Kilroy J Oldster
- An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility joy, passion, and profound reverence for life. – Kilroy J Oldster
- A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself. – Kilroy J Oldster
- We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life’s tragic beauty. – Kilroy J Oldster
- What this letter does is bring us into an atmosphere in which the institution could only wilt and die. The Letter to Philemon – FF Bruce
- Writers cheat death by constructing an immortality vessel. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself. – Melissa de la Cruz
- Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life. – Kilroy J Oldster
- I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. – George Bernard Shaw
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- An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Without parlaying with the renunciation of the world, a person must establish a means to live in harmony with the uncertainties of a chaotic world. – Kilroy J Oldster
- To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living. – Sunday Adelaja
- Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego. – Swami Dhyan Giten
- Accept to die before you live; you shall live free, then accept to live before you die, you shall have a beautiful life – Marcus L Lukusa
- How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? – Mango Wodzak
- The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny! – Israelmore Ayivor
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- . . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . . – Terry Pratchett
- By loving the broken parts in youI learn to love the broken parts in me.I learn that we are not broken after all. – Kate McGahan
- Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do. – Cassie Mae
- Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts. – Henry Cloud
- It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it’s the parts that I do understand. – Mark Twain
- I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books. – Beatrice Sparks
- You see, I don’t think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12-¦. – CS Lewis
- A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices. – Kilroy J Oldster