Tao Te Ching

“There is no assurance of living beyond today but we calmly continue preparing to live forever... Death is a certainty and we go on alone.”

— Sakya Pandita ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜ་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན། 1182 – 1251 CE via John T. Davenport, Gyalsé Tokmé Zangpo
(Kunga Gyeltsen)
from Ordinary Wisdom, Sakya Legshe (Jewel Treasury of Good Advice)