I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Jimi Hendrix

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Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

Alexander the Great

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

Hafiz of Persia

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