A Quote by Jack Kornfield

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
American - Priest
Born: July 16, 1945

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

Peter Drucker

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

John Irving

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

Charles de Gaulle

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing

Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?

Megan McCafferty

An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.

Randall Jarrell

Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.

Katie Piper

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

Bryant H. McGill

We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

Philip Toshio Sudo

There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.

Eckhart Tolle

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Alexander the Great

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Gautama Buddha

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention." "Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?