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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.
- Og Mandino

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- Buddha

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.
- Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
- Buddha

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
- Khalil Gibran

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
- Helen Keller

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Being Optimistic

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QUOTE CARD: “Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
-Nelson Mandela

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