"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."

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Source : "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

Tecumseh

#Life Quotes #Death Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.”

Source : "Johnny Winter, blues guitarist, dies aged 70", www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2014.
“Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.”
“If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people. You need to ask them to share their success strategies with you. Then try them on and see if they fit for you. Experiment with doing what they do, reading what they read, thinking the way they think, and so on. If the new ways of thinking and behaving work, adopt them. If not, drop them, and keep looking and experimenting.”
“We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.”
“One of the biggest lessons we can learn in life is to do everything possible to reach an accord with the individual we are having trouble with.”
“Sometimes my hands they donâ€™t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.”
“I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't exactly how it's done traditionally in the academy...wherever that academy is...but, you know, the academy is broken as it relates to many creative writing programs.”
“Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.”

Source : Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.17

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