Home » Quote » Ayn Rand » „Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.“ „Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.“ — Ayn Rand Tags:DeathLife Related quotes „It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.“ — Ayn Rand „The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.“ — Jr. „Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!“ — Rick Riordan „In order to avoid her death, her particular death, withwrung neck and swollen tongue, she must marry thehangman.“ — Margaret Atwood „There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them.“ — Paulo Coelho „Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death.“ — Swami Vivekananda „The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.“ — Winston S. Churchill „As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.“ — Thich Nhat Hanh „DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.“ — Terry Pratchett