Don Piper quotes

“I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.”
-- Don Piper

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“No one is in a more strategic position than you are to influence the people you are with.”
-- Don Piper

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“Although no one said so, intuitively I knew they were my celestial welcoming committee. It was as if they had all gathered just outside heaven's gate, waiting for me. The first person I recognized was Joe Kulbeth, my grandfather. He looked exactly as I remembered him, with his shock of white hair. ...as I stared into his face, an ecstatic bliss overwhelmed me. ... I couldn't get past the joy of our reunion. How either of us reached heaven seemed irrelevant.”
-- Don Piper

Source : Don Piper, Cecil Murphey (2015). “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life”, p.27, Baker Books

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“When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

“Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?”

“Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.”

“If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?”

“The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.”

“Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.”

“Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.”

“When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.”

“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.”

Source : Edith Cavell's last statements prior to her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, www.firstworldwar.com. 1923.