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“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.”
–Willa Cather
More from a Rite of Passage: Memorial Music: “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel Mark Twain-“Suggestion to persons entering heaven…” Rabindranath Tagore-“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers…”
”Suggestion to persons entering heaven: leave your dog outside. Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and the dog would go in.”
-Mark Twain
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”Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
More from A Rite of Passage: Memorial Music: “The Show Must Go On” by Queen Memorial Music: “Dreams Old Men Dream” by the Cold War Kids Memorial Music: “Will You Miss Me when I’m Gone?” by The Carter Family
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”The connections we make in the course of a life—maybe that’s what heaven is.”
—Fred Rogers
You might also enjoy: “Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” “It’s being here … Continue reading
“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”
–Albert Einstein
More from A Rite of Passage: “Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I … Continue reading
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“It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one.”
- George Harrison
More in “A Rite of Passage”: ”Waking or asleep, / Thou of death must deem / Things more true and deep / Than we mortals dream, / Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?” “If we … Continue reading
