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“Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.”

Past Space Conditions Life And Death Conception Time And Space Live In The Present Fear Of The Future

Author:Alberto Villoldo

“That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.”

Knows Should Stills Whole Able Dies Next Perfect Study Week Acceptance Meaningful Life And Death Desks Next Week Equanimity

Book:An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.”

People World Mother Poor Struggle Dollars Billions Around The World Life And Death Tonight Globes Recipes Poor People Surviving Oxfam

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.”

Giving Moral Too Much Importance Tragedy Life And Death Defects Giving Too Much

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.”

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Book:The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

“Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.”

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Author:Brenda Shaughnessy

“In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.”

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Book:Reena and Other Stories

Source: Reena and Other Stories

“I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.”

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Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in your examination of life and death; Willingness to continually grow; and openness to the possibility that the ordinary is extraordinary, and that your joys and your sorrows have meaning and mystery”

Source: The New American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guide

“The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.”

Fighting Passing Passings Life And Death Old Days Crude Between Life And Death

Author:Jack Johnson

“Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.”

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Author:LeCrae

“Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.”

Life And Death Organisms Interfaces Fungi Between Life And Death

Book:Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Source: Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

“The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and the prelude of the world to come. Lazarus proclaims it in advance by coming back from the depths of Hades and rising from the dead on the fourth day just by voice and command of God, Who has power over life and death (cf. Jn. 11:1-45).”

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Book:The homilies

Source: The homilies

“Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.”

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Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.”

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Book:A Year with John Paul II: Daily Meditations from His Writings and Prayers

Source: A Year with John Paul II: Daily Meditations from His Writings and Prayers

“When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell you. You have no way of checking up on them. You have no way of deciding whether there is any truth in what they are saying.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.”

Thinking Secret Life And Death Thinking About Life

Author:Takeda Shingen

“Everyone dies but not everyone lives.”

“I am a 21st century man. I don’t believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.”

Men Believe I Believe Magic Century Tears Don't Believe I Believe In Life And Death Sweat 21st Century

Author:Kamal Haasan

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

“I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.”

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Author:John Legend

“I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death.”

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Author:Sonny Barger

“Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.”

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Book:Humble Orthodoxy: Holding the Truth High Without Putting People Down

Source: Humble Orthodoxy: Holding the Truth High Without Putting People Down

“I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect. Most people opt for the easiest version rather than the best. But in the end which version lives, which version thrives and which version dies, depends on the choices we make and the people in our lives.”

“Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind. ...the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question.”

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Author:Phil Crane

“If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.”

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Author:Eleanor Clift

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.”

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Book:Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

“Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'”

Source: War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness

“...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.”

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Author:Stephen Levine

“A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.”

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Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.”

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Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.”

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Author:Frank Smythe

“First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.”

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Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“Life can only be understood backwards.”

“What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

“To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the moment, so that we utterly "disappear." Thoughts of past, present, or future, of life and death, of this world and the next, are transcended in the superabundance of the now. Time and timelessness coalesce: this is the moment of eternity.”

Ifs World Needs Giving Matter Moments Past Dies Next Half Our Lives This World Demand Eternity Disappear This Life Life And Death Reborn Past Present Absorption Timelessness

Author:Philip Kapleau

“I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.”

Ifs Should Writing Believe I Believe Seats Life And Death

Book:All Over but the Shoutin'

Source: All Over but the Shoutin'

“Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?”

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Author:Charles Lindbergh

“I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.”

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Author:Ross Macdonald

“The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.”

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Author:Phil Bredesen

“And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.”

Eye Machines Breaths Breathing Thoughtful Life And Death Traveler Pulse Serene Between Life And Death

Author:William Wordsworth

“And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.”

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Book:A Book of Verses

Source: A Book of Verses

“Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.”

Long Made Life And Death Long Life

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.”

Life And Death

Book:Mark Twain's notebook

Source: Mark Twain's notebook

“Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.”

Life Is Force Defeat Life And Death Love Life

Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.”

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Book:The Revolution of Hope

Source: The Revolution of Hope

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