Life needs both: thorns and roses, days and nights, happiness/unhappiness, birth/death. Be a witness to it all and you will know something that is beyond birth, beyond death; something that is beyond darkness and beyond light; something that is beyond happiness, beyond unhappiness.

Osho

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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.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

Frederick Douglas

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

William Cullen Bryant

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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

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