A Quote by Sophocles

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best. — © Sophocles
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .
A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past. If you can be unattached to the past every moment, then you are always fresh, young, just born. You pulsate with life and that pulsation gives you immortality. You are immortal, only unaware of the fact.
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.
We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.
Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely discontinuous with the past. He has no desire. And when there is no desire, for the first time you live
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!
The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
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