"Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things."

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Source : Richard Leider, David A. Shapiro (2004). “Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose”, p.131, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Richard Leider

#Ends Quotes #Our Lives Quotes #Values Quotes

“I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.”

Source : "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.
“The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.23, Knopf
“The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed ...”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2016). “The Leavenworth Case”, p.104, Anna Katharine Green
“Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.”
“Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 27, 2015
“James Bevel could do more with young people than any human being on the face of the earth.”
“Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.”
“The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.”

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