“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,but the fear of pain or death.”
— Epictetus
“It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.”
— Publilius Syrus
“We are not victims of aging, sickness and death.These are part of scenery, not the seer,who is immune to any form of change.This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”
— Henry Van Dyke
“Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.”
— Felix Frankfurter
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
— Paulo Coelho
“There can be no happiness when one lives in fear.Whatever the future holds, fear will not improve tomorrow,and it will destroy your happiness today.Action is empowering, fear is disempowering.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.”
— Ric Elias
“If you want to change your situation you must first change your thoughts. Because if you keep on thinking what you have been thinking you’ll keep on getting what you have been getting.”
— Jon Gordon
“Maybe there are ways to bring things around you that would bring ease to your life, contribute to your well-being and happiness as well as whatever is pleasant and serene. I encourage you to find your words that fit in so that whatever you do in your life, it isn’t in a state of stress or tension. Stress and tension contribute to something like pain.”
— John Morton
“The people whose first instinct is to smile are some of Earth’s greatest treasure – be one of them”
— Unknown
“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”
-— Roy T. Bennett
“A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.”
— Angela Merkel
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”
-— Brené Brown
“Those who have children can become masters of patience, endurance, and steadfastness, because children will test you at every turn. …The way to make our children patient and loving is to be that way ourselves.”
— Eknath Easwaran
“We all seek Soul. While Soul is always present, it doesn’t appear in our lives automatically. Soul requires our attention and reflection. Offering our respectful regard to the Soul is a way of loving it, caring for it, nurturing it.”
— Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson
“I think that whenever soul is present, it’s because what you’re doing, whom you’re with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place or person or event, without ego and without judgment.”
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
“If you really care to look for the truth, you’ll find it inside you. Go back into your own Soul – the everlasting truth, the “I am that I am,” the Alpha and Omega. It’s all right there, just waiting for you to recognize it. This is what the Bible refers to when you read, “There is a place already prepared.” “
— John-Roger