Mortals Quotes - Page 12

• PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Sea, Departed

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

  Hermann Hesse

  Form, Like Me, Transient

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.8, Om Books International

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• Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cleats, Artificial, Turf

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• Our divine perfection - not registered by the physical eye but only by the heart’s knowing - is who we truly are. Our mortal imperfections - registered by the physical senses - are not who we truly are. Yet we keep trying, in love, to find each other’s perfection within the world of imperfection. And it simply is not there.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Eye, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 03, 2013

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• In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.

  Rene Daumal

  Men, Sky, Mountain

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• Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

  Dennis Prager

  Parent, Roles, Given

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• The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom
  They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon

  Tupac Shakur

  Regret, Eye, Moon

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• A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

  Hugh Prather

  Mud, Messy, Walk With Me

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.162, Bantam

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• Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.

  Henri Nouwen

  People, Broken, Doe

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.93, Image

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• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

  Martin Luther

  Failing, Fortresses, Prevailing

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Perception, Unawareness

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• It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

  Anton Bruckner

  Music, Common, Speak

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• The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Unconscious Thoughts, Conscious And Unconscious, Universe

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.576, Jazzybee Verlag

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• So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

  Alain de Botton

  Ego, Ignored, Ache

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2013

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• The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

  Sheldon Richman

  Pain, Organization, Political

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• He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

  Saint Augustine

  Vigor, May, Sin

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• Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.

  Brian Lara

  Genius, Tendulkar, Mere

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• It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Sin, Mortal Sin

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• So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

  Rene Descartes

  Lying, Risk, Curiosity

  RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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• Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.

  Alex Bogusky

  Creativity, Innovation, Enemy

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• Every trial that ever burdened a mortal man, every temptation that ever stormed a human heart, and every blessing that ever delighted a needy soul have been skillfully designed by the Creator for one purpose: to draw men to Himself.

  Jim Berg

  Heart, Men, Blessing

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• I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Feet, Imagination, Long

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• In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

  Benjamin Graham

  Wise, Men, Phrases

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Father, Choices

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