“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
Anais Nin
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.”
Harold Kushner
“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
Bernice Johnson Reagon
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
Anthony Robbins
“In death, as in life, our people deserve more respect and dignity, ... The failure to execute a contract for the recovery of our citizens has hurt the speed of recovery efforts.”
Kathleen Blanco