"Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.”

Source : "Sex Pistols: The Inside Story". Book by Fred Vermorel, p. 169, 1987.
“I liked performing, but not the struggle.”
“Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.”
“Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.”
“As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.”

Source : Renita J. Weems (2000). “Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.”
“All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.”
“Slavery is the next thing to hell.”

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