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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

— Charlie Haden

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

— Epicurus

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.

— Smokey Robinson

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

— Lewis Thomas

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

— Neil MacGregor

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

— Nhat Hanh

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

— Raymond Smullyan

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

— Marion Milner

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

— Harry Chapin

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