Immortality Quotes - Page 21

• There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.

  Michelle Forbes

  Feelings, Youth, Excited

  "Q&A – Michelle Forbes (Mitch Larsen)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Meditation, Darkness

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• The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Dark, Shining

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• Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Laughing, Awareness

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• Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Thinking, Giving

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• Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Feelings, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eggs, Giving, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 182, 1982.

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• The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

  John Ford

  Princess, Earth Life, Joy

  'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 2, sc. 2

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• The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

  Henry Fuseli

  Excellence, Labor

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• Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours. He was poured from the same first fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy Heaven or not, he has terrestrial immortality. His life, not long, not short, knows no beginning , no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal eternity.

  John Muir

  Adventure, Heart, Blue

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• To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Past, Joy

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.412, Harvard University Press

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• This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.

  Brigham Young

  Light, Baptism, Honor

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• Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

  Jewel

  Innocence, Achieve

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• Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Stars, War, Rights

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• Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Recollection

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Enlightenment, Mortality

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• We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Gates, Ifs

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• As long as you're running away from a part of yourself, you can't see immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Yoga, Long

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• As long as you're too busy trying to become something that you're not, you can't see your own immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Long, Trying

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• Love all your different sides, only then will immortality come to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Different, Sides

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• We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives us the vision to see those we give to are God. As we see this in others, suddenly we see it within ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Giving

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• Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

  William Morley Punshon

  Past, Lasts, Praise

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• The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Running, Pain, Delight

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.75

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