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• Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

  Marcus Borg

  Blessed, Self, Imagine

  "Marcus Borg, Liberal Scholar on Historical Jesus, Dies at 72" by Laurie Goodstein, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 2015.

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• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Future

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• If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.

  Brad Warner

  Believe, Worry, Missing

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.

  Emma Bull

  Lying, Philosophy, Believe

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• What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Baby

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, Hot

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Causes, Morality

  RONALD REAGAN: (1984). “A MAN TRUE TO HIS WORD”

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• The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

  Anna Godbersen

  Flaws, Made, Passing

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• It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

  Joe Meno

  Tragedy, Triumph, Moments

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.285, Akashic Books

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• I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death.” “You must be fun at parties,” I said.

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Party, Soul

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.283, Penguin UK

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• People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

  John Green

  Alaska, Ideas, People

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.79, Penguin

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• Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

  Stephen Levine

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.152, Harmony

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• It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.

  Greg Graffin

  Children, Motivation, Ideas

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• ... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Regret, Mourning, Heaven

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• Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

  Sherry Lansing

  Successful, Awards, Giants

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Love You, Forever, Promise

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• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  "Jesus : Myth Or Reality?". Book by Ian Curtis, 2006.

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• To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted.
  Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Sacrifice, Skills

  1955 The Passionate State of Mind.

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• I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Believe, Underwear

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• I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't believe this is all there is'. And I thought: 'Wait a minute. You're Mel Gibson. You have millions of dollars. You're a great-looking chap with every conceivable blessing that could be bestowed upon a man. And that's not good enough ?'

  Hugh Laurie

  Believe, Blessing, Men

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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• I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

  Mike Easley

  Believe, Sunset, Years

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• If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice.

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Islamic, Home, Justice

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• Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

  Peter Matthiessen

  Beautiful, Travel, Regret

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

  Dana Gioia

  Wise, Real, Blessed

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.49, Macmillan

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