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“Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But what of Him who gave us mortal life itself, who will ere long give us all immortality, and who proffers to the faithful the greatest gift of all, eternal life? We are poor bookkeepers, indeed!”

Life Giving Should Long Faith Poor Pay Return Eternal Eternity Grateful Debt Favors Mortals Faithful Immortality Eternal Life Greatest Gifts Bookkeepers

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek to lead and to serve. There is not one strait and narrow path for the officers-the chosen-and another for the enlisted men. We are all to experience life "according to the flesh"; there is no other way, for it is the way to immortality and eternal life. Given the resplendent riches of the promised kingdom, why would anyone wish to walk another path than the one that leads us back to our gracious and merciful Father in Heaven?”

“Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?”

“Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.”

Men World Self Earth Beautiful Spiritual Death Joy Existence Struggle Doors Identity Perception Gold Response Finals Immortality Sensitive Charm Gross Hammers Anvils

Book:Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.”

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Author:Esther Dyson

“There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.”

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.”

Life Success Boys Path Son Goes On Increase Immortality Valor

Author:Seneca the Younger

“For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.”

Thinking Life Sometimes Fall Honesty Lonely Immortality

Author:Bob Dylan

“This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.”

Life Humans Soul Dies Quiet Shadow Human Life Immortality Immortal Contemplating Blown Away Immortal Soul

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The first condition of immortality is death.”

Writing Firsts Conditions Immortality Oxymoron

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.”

Giving Memories Middle Conversation Tongue Combination Immortality Tied Good Memories Tongue Tied

Author:Mark Twain

“It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.”

Humans Has Beens Said Stills Soul Immortality Immortal Stupidest Immortal Soul

Author:Lord Byron

“Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.”

Men Humans Ideas Matter Form Human Beings Independent Immortality Immortal Molecules Immortal Life

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The first requisite for immortality is death.”

Firsts Immortality

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.”

Soul Would Be Higher Fit Immortality Deserving Duration Great Souls Immortal Soul

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives.”

Ends Christ Sin Our Lives Sorrow Promise Taste Eternal Wings Disappointment Bitter Lifts Immortality Each Day Neglect Ashes Eternal Life Atonement End Of Life

Author:Bruce C. Hafen

“A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.”

May Food Remains Cooking Immortality Dull Culinary Leap Milk Cheese Naive Disappoint Cheesy

Author:Clifton Fadiman

“The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.”

Soul Comfort Threat Doctrine Immortality Criminal Mind

Author:Mason Cooley

“Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.”

Stills Done Havens Twenties Immortality Twenty One

Author:Judith Malina

“If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.”

Ifs Has Beens Left Picks Claims Immortality Contribution

Author:Walter Gropius

“Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.”

Term Immortality Immortal Desirable

Author:Damien Hirst

“The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.”

Feels Children Seems Humanity Grows Greater Groups Offers Unique Expectations Lifetime Endure Extremes Accepted Immortality Mortality Classroom Communes

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.”

Soul Matter Happens Destiny No Matter What Conquer Immortality Dimensions

Author:Akiane Kramarik

“The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.”

World Art Art Is Immortality Metamorphosis

Author:Andre Malraux

“I believe in the immortality of all creatures.”

Believe Art I Believe Creatures I Believe In Immortality

Author:Egon Schiele

“When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.”

World Doe Feelings Speak Divine Awakening Immortality Bliss Acquire

Author:Robert Adams

“I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.”

People May Dies Dying Liberation Immortality Republic

Book:Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

Source: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

“That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.”

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Book:Time Flies

Source: Time Flies

“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.”

Giving Children Said Reason Dies House Five Comedy Poet Fame African American Immortality Immortal Before I Die

Author:Bill Cosby

“The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.”

Writing Mean Form Dies Bits Impossible Paper Ambition Fundamentals Structure Immortality Exit Unchanging

Author:Jacques Derrida

“All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.”

Soul Struggle Immortality Unrest

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?”

Giving Spirituality Christ Wealth Poor Secret Sells Saint Immortality Prophet Purity Follow Me Renunciation Great Spiritual Vedas Progeny

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction.”

World Persons Form Brain Fiction Forever Knowing This World Science Fiction Immortality Live Forever Rationalize

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.”

Ifs Life Made Achievement Approach Immortality Because Of You

Book:The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity

Source: The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity

“Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.”

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Author:Laozi

“Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.”

Men Mind Heart Today Tomorrow Opening Immortality Divinity Silencing

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

Fame Immortality Funeral

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.”

Self Philosophy America Past Imagination Taste Tradition Relation Constant Average Scales Immortality Copies Duplication

Book:Faith in Fakes: Essays

Source: Faith in Fakes: Essays

“Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.”

Dies Pay Attention Buddhist Pay Attention Immortality Careless Carelessness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.”

Children Soul Spring Our Children Immortality Yearning Plato Our Love Love Our Children

Author:Plato

“I have good hope that there is something after death.”

Death Dying Immortality Plato After Death

Author:Plato

“How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.”

Self Faith Christianity Blessed Dear Christian Life Immortality Holiness Righteous Self Control Assurance Comprehension Splendor Dear Friend

Author:Pope Clement I

“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”

People Men Soul Divine Immortality Greek Immortal Righteous Immortal Soul Living Rightly

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.”

Reality Jobs Lifetime Corporations Immortality Guarantees

Author:John W. Snow

“With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.”

I Can Spirit House Music Singing Shining Sake Immortality Fragile Refuge Sifting

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.”

Knows Men World Death Destiny Honest Immortality Creeds Other Worlds Honest Man

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.”

Ifs Mind Believe Humans Has Beens Time Dies Universe Human Beings Immortality Behave Realms Arrogance Infantile

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.”

Ideas Whole Vampire Immortality Beast Call Me Being Cool Egotistical

Author:Gerard Way

“Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord’s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”

Men Desire Lord Eternal Accomplish Immortality Gates Eternal Life Baptism

Author:Bruce R. McConkie