“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home”

~ Chief Tecumseh (Crouching Tiger) Shawnee Nation 1768-1813 ~

If you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.

~ Dalai Lama

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world.
It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Follow your dreams of a better world,
and keep on trying, even when
there seems to be little hope,
because it is the right thing to do.
We may never know how the seeds of kindness
that we plant may help others on their journey,
today, or even sometime far in the future.
But every act of compassion makes a difference!

~ Robert Alan