" I am off in search of the great perhaps ." ~ François Rabelais " I die hard , but am not afraid to go ." ~ George Washington " The fog is rising ... I must go in ." ~ Emily Dickinson " Why not ? ... Yeah ." ~ Timothy Leary " Beautiful ." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( replying to her husband about how she felt ) “ I love many things ; I love all people .” ~ Leo Tolstoy " Make the world better ." ~ Lucy Stone ( abolitionist & activist )
" What is life ? It is the flash of a firefly in the night . It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime . It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset ." ~ Crowfoot
P . P . S . No matter what anyone one day says or writes to the contrary , my own last words ( no matter when I one day happen to say them ) are hereby officially noted to be :
" First , discern the devils in your dogma ; Second , soothe the sufferings of the sentient ; Last ... be Kind when least inclined ."
I realize that this is a mouthful to get out while taking one ' s last breath , and yet these 20 words encompass the three primary reasons I have chosen to Be ; the three main messages I have chosen to share while I am still alive ... So even if I don ' t actually get them out of my mouth before I pass onward , know that I was most certainly thinking them at the time -- and report them as uttered anyway .
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