Reincarnation Quotes - Page 15

• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, Believe, Health

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

  Johnny Depp

  Musical, Serial Killer, Killers

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• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

  Gloria Estefan

  Fate, Second Chance, Giving

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• A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Opportunity

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.229, SUNY Press

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• You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Midnight, Chance

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• Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.

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• So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Work, Philosophical, Ambition

  In Memoriam canto 73 (1850) See Rhodes 2

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• I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.

  Lee Trevino

  Believe, Eagles, Next

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• The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Karma, Past

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

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• The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

  Patrick Warburton

  Jumping, Risk, Cliffs

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

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• I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

  Patrick Warburton

  Believe, Independent, Trying

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

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• It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Commercial Art, Would Be

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• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspiring, Mother, Sin

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.161, Xist Publishing

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• Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Long, Mind, Progress

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.648, Delphi Classics

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• I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

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• So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Thinking, Body

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• They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Thinking, Long, Tree

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.512, Wordsworth Editions

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• Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Procrastination, Form, Strikes

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• The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Play, Suffering, Directors

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• Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Media, Departed, Kim Il Sung

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Men, White Man, Hair

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, May, Life Is

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

  Kendrick Meek

  Years, People, Justice

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• Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

  Ben Nicholson

  Stuff, Serious, Breaking Down

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