Death Quote by Pema Chödrön — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”

“To what do we really commit ourselves? Is it to palying it safe and to manipulating our life and our whole world, so that it will give us security and confirmation?...Do we refuge in small satisfied actions, of both speech and mind? Or do we take refuge in warriorship, in taking a leap, in going beyond our usual safety zones?”

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”

“It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.”

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

“Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things.”

“When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?”

“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.”

“I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.”

“The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.”