A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
I don’t fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy … but I don’t think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
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.
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