"Do not stand there at my grave and weep;
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand there at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die."
-Gwydion

"Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
Simply step out fearlessly,
knowing that I am with you."
-Eileen Caddy

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
-George S. Patton, Jr.

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."
-David Sarnoff

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
-e. e. cummings

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
-Helen Keller

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
-Seneca

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good."
-William Mitford

"Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."
-Walter Scott

"All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die'--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."
-Mark Twain

"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."
-Joyce Cary

"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."
-Lucan

"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."
-Proverb

"God's finger touched him, and he slept."
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"He that lives to forever, never fears dying."
-William Penn

"How oft when they were at the point of death have men been merry!"
-Shakespeare

"But I will be A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed."
-Shakespeare

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."
-Psalms 23:4

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life, does greatly please."
-Sir Edmund Spenser

"...silence sounds no worse than tears, after death has stopped the ears."
-A.E. Housman

"Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted."
-Percy Blysshe Shelley

"Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die."
-John Masefield

"Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion."
-Dylan Thomas

"Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another."
-Socrates

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-Teddy Roosevelt

"Everyone must row with the oars he has."
-English Proverb

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
-Elbert Hubbard

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
-William Jones

"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
-Stephen R. Covey

"The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it."
-Moliere