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Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

— Martha Beck

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

— Bertolt Brecht

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

— Renato Dulbecco

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

— Lao Tzu

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

— Bertolt Brecht

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

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

— Raymond Smullyan

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

— John Diamond

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

— Agnes de Mille