Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

Everything that gets born dies.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you you must feel that you can trust them too even when youre in the dark. Even when youre falling.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.

When you look at it that way you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

I am dying of hunger.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.