“The it-rich are those who have chosen to face their fears rather than live with regrets.”
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
The Wizard Knight (2004), Volume 1: The Knight, Ch. 62
Fiction
“The it-rich are those who have chosen to face their fears rather than live with regrets.”
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) edited by Larry Chang, p. 193
This is actually a pithy modern-day 'summary' of the "Abhaya Sutta" (AN 4.184). It appears in "Buddha’s Little Instruction Book" by Jack Kornfield (p88).
Unclassified
“Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life”
Variant: dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
Source: Tuck Everlasting
Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
Misattributed
http://www.jamiat.org.za/al-jamiat/june/taliban.html.