“Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called “Someday I’ll””
Denis Waitley (1933) American writer
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.”
— Gabrielle Zevin, book Elsewhere
Source: Elsewhere
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