Immortality Quotes - Page 18

• Creativity is a yearning for immortality

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Yearning

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

  P. D. James

  Reality, Risk, Age

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.211, Vintage

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• Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mean, Self, Realization

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• It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Practice, Self

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• Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

  Poul Anderson

  Mean, Men, Space

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• We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial infinity and temporal immortality it provides may well be just the remedy for these age-old problems. Access to the boundless resources of the universe may once and for all puncture the pressure of population and politics of scarcity which have generated war, oppression, and plagued our species from the start.

  Paul Levinson

  War, Space, Age

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• I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Believe, Soul

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries: 1847-1894”, Scribner

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• Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

  Shane Smith

  Fabric Of Life, Issues, Want

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• It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Important

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• What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Mean, Quality, Want

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• The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Flower, Reading

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• I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Pathways

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• When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Buddhism, Doors

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• Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Incarnation

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• In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Awareness, Hinduism

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• Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Enlightenment, Hinduism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside the immortality that had been granted. For such immortality is eternally preserved by participation in life, since all life is genuine and preserved by appropriate food. The food of that blessed life is 'the bread that came down from heaven and gives life to the world' (Jn. 6:33), just as the inerrant Word Himself declares about Himself in the Gospels.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Blessed, Giving

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• If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Son, Watches

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

  Marilyn Manson

  Keys, Transformation, Longevity

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• It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

  Vernon Howard

  Wise, Ambition, Defeat

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• A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

  Friedrich Schiller

  Healthy, Needs

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• There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.

  Humphry Davy

  Men, Thinking, May

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.452

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• If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.110, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

  Orestes Brownson

  Soul

  Orestes Augustus Brownson (1840). “Charles Elwood: Or, the Infidel Converted”, p.90

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• Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

  John Wolcot

  Childhood, Age, Said

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