"All men desire to free themselves solely..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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More on Life
“Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.”
“The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”
“Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.”
More on Death
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
“They say, the tongues of dying menEnforce attention, like deep harmony;Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.”
“Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.”