I know the truth, and I will tell you now: He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he is. A great man, he was. A great man he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. And I knew, as Denny sped me toward the doctor who would fix me, that if I had already accomplished what I set out to accomplish here on earth, if I had already learned what I was meant to learn, I would have left the curb one second later than I had, and I would have been killed instantly by that car. But I was not killed. Because I was not finished. I still had work to do. Garth Stein
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The quote by Dr. Seuss, "I know the truth, and I will tell you now: He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he is.

A great man, he was. A great man he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose.

His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. And I knew, as Denny sped me toward the doctor who would fix me," is a reference to the true meaning of life and living in general. It talks about how we're not truly living when we're trying to avoid death because we're still out there doing things we're supposed to be doing instead of waiting for our turn to die like everyone else.

We may not experience death physically because we've finished our duty here on earth but we can still be heroes in our own lives within our deaths by keeping going even when we feel like giving up because we've already done everything we need to do and accomplished everything we could have accomplished in this world and yet we're still alive and working hard and setting goals and pursuing them until the end of time and beyond or until our dying breath since we're not dead yet after all even though we feel like we are.

Source: The Art Of Racing In The Rain

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