We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.

Dalai Lama

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Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Jerry Garcia

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Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Strength is life, Weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda

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The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Leo Tolstoy

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