"Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky."

-- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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“No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.”
“I'll perform all the way to the grave.”

Source : FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Sep 19, 2012
“Money is only interesting for what it lets you do and create.”
“When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.”

Source : Alan A. Altshuler (1961). “The process of planning in two American cities”
“When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.”
“There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.”
“Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.”
“I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.100, Northwestern University Press

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