Chapter Forty Seven: Slightest Inconvenience

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time

for me to die, so let me live my 

life the way I want to.

Jimmy Hendrix

-o0o-

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions

and billions of years before I was born, and had

not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain

-o0o-

You only live twice:

Once when you're born

And once when you look death in the face.

Ian Fleming

-o0o-

Life is pleasant.

Death is peaceful.

It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

-o0o-

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Franz Kafka

-o0o-

Just as when we come into the world,

when we die we are afraid of the unknown.

But the fear is something from within us

that has nothing to do with reality.

Dying is like being born: just a change.

Isabel Allende

-o0o-

If you live each day as it was your last,

someday you'll most certainly be right.

Steve Jobs

-o0o-

Hope is being able to see that there

is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu

-o0o-

Listen to the musn'ts, child.

Listen to the don'ts.

Listen to the shouldn'ts,

the impossibles, the won'ts.

Listen to the never haves,

then listen close to me [...]

Anything can happen, child.

Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

-o0o-

There is some good in this world,

and it's worth fighting for.

J.R.R. Tolkien

-o0o-

It's always something,

to know you've done

the most you could.

But, don't leave off

hoping, or it's of no use

doing anything.

Hope, hope to the last!

Charles Dickens

-p0o-

When we love, we always

strive to become

better than we are.

When we strive to become

better than we are,

everything around us

become better too.

Paolo Coelho

-o0o-

But I know, somehow,

that only when it is dark

enough can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

x------------x

The Chapter is sponsored by Burberry.