'You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway,'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Living with pride is essential; death removes the capacity to care about such things.
- In plain terms
- Be proud while alive.
- What can you take from it?
- Pride matters only while alive.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why choose pride?
- What matters after death?
Another view
Legacy lives on after death.
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