Birth And Death Quotes - Page 3

• I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

  Justin Baldoni

  Believe, Earth, Belief

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Beautiful, Majestic, Faces

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• You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Wheels

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• What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain with you for it was never away. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what is it that you have never lost. That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything, to That there is no birth nor death. That Immovable state, which is not affected by the birth and death of a body or a mind, that state you must perceive.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Body, May

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• Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

  Jessica Raine

  Birth, Countryside

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• This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.12, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Moving, Tree

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• Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Years, Silence, Meditation

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• Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.

  Fritjof Capra

  Essence, Shiva, Matter

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• How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Length Of Life, Space, Birth

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beauty, Beach, Morning

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.5, Parallax Press

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• I have known good and evil,  sin and virtue, right and wrong;  I have judged and been judged;  I have passed through birth and death,  Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell;  And in the end I realized  that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Evil, Joy, Heaven

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• Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Mean, Buddhism

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• On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Self

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• Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.

  Masao Abe

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Common

  Masao Abe (2016). “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.80, Springer

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• A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

  Tiffany Baker

  Garden, Birth, Spectrum

  Tiffany Baker (2009). “The Little Giant of Aberdeen County”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Birth, God Love, Strive

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• Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.338

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• At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.

  Ronda Rousey

  Stars, Home, Fighting

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.

  Masao Abe

  Mean, Dying, Birth

  Masao Abe, Steven Heine (1992). “A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion”, p.169, SUNY Press

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• ...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.

  David Deida

  Fall, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.341, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

  William S. Burroughs

  Reality, People, Gimmicks

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Space

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• We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Sex, Choices

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

  John Dewey

  Facts, Groups, Birth

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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