“Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.” InspirationalSelfDiesLevelsForeverAwarenessFieldsBuddhismDiscoverySelf DiscoveryDedication Author:Frederick Lenz
“It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.” Has BeensTodayCertainDiesSoundLevelsGroupsBirdWingsSpeciesReasoningAncestorInheritanceFlewDinosaurs Author:David M. Raup
“If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being.” IfsHumansImportantEnoughDiesHuman BeingsLevelsCarDiseaseLosingLowsPicksAccidentsMysticismCar AccidentLosing PowerGet Low Author:Frederick Lenz
“When our power level is down sufficiently, we die.” DiesLevelsLosingMysticismLosing Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.” MenHas BeensDiesCoursesLevelsCommonBreakFateDyingObjectsHe ManFameGloryHatredRaisedSakeEnvyNoblePursueMeritLastingUsualSubmitStrainPosteritySplendorAversion Author:Thucydides
“Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.” HumansWholeMotherDiesMy OwnSpaceLevelsExistenceIntellectualConvincedMysteriousExplanationHuman ExistenceClusters Author:A. N. Wilson
“People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.” PeopleIfsImportantCertainDiesFallLevelsBreakRiskBloodPressureHipsFrailtyBlood PressureHigh RiskMammograms Author:Atul Gawande
“What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.” HumansFacesDiesChallengesDecisionLevelsMoralAspirationHopefulRefusalMoral Decisions Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.” YearsHumansStillsDifferentProblemPastUsedDiesTurnsFoundSpaceLevelsPathFashionMirrorsFinalsTriumphTragicMatureIdleVagueVersusTime And SpaceVansTwistedMotorCartsMazesArchesDifferent LevelsMulesTacklingNarrow PathBreaking Away Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“When someone you love truly dies, you have to find them over and over again in the world, and I think you do that on a very psychic, unconscious level, and I think in some ways I was calling out to that spirit of my mother when I saw the fox. It doesn't surprise me it's in animals that I find my mother.” ThinkingWorldWaySpiritMotherDiesAnimalLevelsSawsCallingSurpriseUnconsciousFoxesPsychicsSurprise MeOne You LoveSomeone You Love Author:Cheryl Strayed