"The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it."

-- Sherwin B. Nuland

#Wisdom Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Real Quotes

“George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.”
“If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!”
“The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.”
“My music is very raw, it's emotional, and it's honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music because I want to paint the most vivid picture that tells a story whether a person is falling in love for the first time or going through a painful heartbreak.”

Source : Source: thesource.com
“Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.”
“In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.”

Source : Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.
“You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.”
“I'd rather be relevant than cool.”

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