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There is no such thing as death. Life existed before we were born and will continue to exist after we leave this world. Same with love, it existed before and will go on forever.
— Paulo Coelho
Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.
— Paulo Coelho
Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition.
— Paulo Coelho
Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
— John Milton
No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities... Each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Jeremiah lived about three hundred years ago. He had only one son, whom he educated himself in his own house. As they were sitting together in the garden when the child was ten years old, Jeremiah began talking to him. He said: The little time that you have been in the world, my child, you have spent entirely with me. My love and tenderness to you has made you look upon me as your only friend and benefactor, and the cause of all the comfort and pleasure that you enjoy. Your heart
— William Law
Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
— William Saroyan
But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.
— William Saroyan
In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.
— William Saroyan
The person of a man may leave—or be taken away—but the best part of a good man stays. It stays forever. Love is immortal and makes all things immortal. But hate dies every minute.
— William Saroyan
Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.
— Winston Churchill
To Admiral Cunningham it was against all tradition to abandon the Army in such a crisis. He declared, "It takes the Navy three years to build a new ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.
— Winston Churchill