"While I thought ...."

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci

"One can get as much ...."

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing.  It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

Anne Morrow Lindberg

"Set out from any point ...."

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Antonio Porchia