death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life
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No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. Some day, you and I will be mere legends. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the life that was given to us.
True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.
A life of service is a life well and greatly lived.
Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.