Quotes on Dies

Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

He who does not travel, who does not read, _x000D_ who does not listen to music, _x000D_ who does not find grace in himself, _x000D_ she who does not find grace in herself, _x000D_ dies slowly.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to flower and set seed. Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much.

We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we are truly alive we see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. The whole universe is conspiring to reveal this to us. Peace is available and when we touch it everything becomes real. We become ourselves, fully alive in the present moment.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.