Epictetus Quotes
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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Loneliness is holding the one you love When you know you might never hold him again. Even lost in the darkness My heart will find you The soul die at the hand of the one who carries it. If I could find a place to run away Hidden safely, I would be there today. The darkest daylight finds me.
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Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
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I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
