Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
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