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comment by AnSionnachRua
AnSionnachRua  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the best (and/or most interesting) piece of advice you've ever heard?

One of my favourite quotes comes from Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (itself a fantastic book):

    The worst you can do is die, and you have to die sometime.
Sometimes it's quite soothing to remember that at some point you'll be dead and all this will be over.