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Oct 22, 2015 · Kurt Vonnegut. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”. “Become what you are.”. “What labels me, negates me.”. Quotes About Art. “What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”.
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- “Analysis of death is not for the sake of becoming fearful but to appreciate this precious lifetime.” - Dalai Lama. As a Buddhist (the most senior Buddhist on earth, no less), the Dalai Lama believes in reincarnation.
- “I have now decided that my death should be very precious. I really want to use it. I’d like my death to be as interesting as my life has been, and will be.”
- “It’s part of the privilege of being human that we have our moment when we have to say goodbye.” - Patti Smith. Patti Smith said various eloquent things about death in this 2017 interview with Australian television .
- “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” - Harriet Beecher Stowe. The celebrated nineteenth century American abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe is best remembered for her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the plight of enslaved African Americans, and was a very influential novel of its time.
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- Humanism
- Why Are We Here?
- Happiness
- Problems
- Doing The Right Thing
- Friends and Other People
- Other Animals
- Freedom
- Knowledge and Doubt
Humanism Why are we here? Happiness Problems Doing the right thing Friends and other people Other animals Freedom Knowledge and doubt Religion and faith Death
“Humanism is about the world, not about humanism.” – Harold Blackham “A humanist is someone who does the right thing even though she knows that no one is watching.” – Dick McMahan, New York humanist, 2004 “Humanism is the belief that we can live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs.” – British Humanist Association, 2003
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?” – Attributed to George Eliot “The value of life lies not in its length, but in the use we make of it.” – Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), Essays “Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time i...
“Reason, Observation and Experience – the Holy Trinity of Science – have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.” – Robert Green Ingersoll, The Gods, 1876 “The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.” – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Ha...
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” – Attributed to Marie Curie (1867-1934) “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.” – Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) “It is only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.” – Attributed to Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) “Whenever you have a mishap, remember to ask you...
“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture – and very much to our credit.” – T H Huxley “The crucial test of ethical values is whether they apply to strangers, and those afar, not just in our midst.” – Bernard Crick, Essays on Citizenship, 2000 “Do not do to others what you would not like for you...
“Of all the means by which wisdom ensures happiness throughout life, by far the most important is the possession of friendship.” – Epicurus, Principle Doctrines, C300 BCE
“We should be bound by the laws of humanity to give gentle usage to these creatures.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, 1752 “The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but Can they suffer?” – Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789
“As it is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions; so it is that there should be different experiments in living.” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859 “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possibl...
“No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.” – Marcus Aurelius (121 – 80 CE), Meditations “The wisest is he who realises, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he knows nothing.” – Plato, Apology (C 375 BCE) “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Co...
Nov 12, 2023 · Here are some lovely inspirational quotes about death from famous people. 38. "The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is." — Fred Rogers. 39. "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to." - Jimi Hendrix.
13. “If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”. – Samuel Butler. 14. “I would rather die a meaningful death than live a meaningless life.”. – Corazon Aquino. 15. “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”.
Mar 29, 2024 · Life is too important to be taken seriously. Don’t be afraid of death, be afraid of an unlived life. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Death can take away someone’s physical presence, but love keeps them alive in our hearts forever. Life is a canvas, and you are the artist.
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May 3, 2024 · life and death quotes. “Farewell, my love, until we meet again someday, somewhere.”. “Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.”. – Henry Ward Beecher. “It is death that provides life with all its meaning.”. – M. Scott Peck. “Life is the dash between the birth date and the passed away date.”. – Jesse Jackson.
