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“Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.”

Self Helping Deals Self Help Decent Poetry Is Mortality Sufi Decent Life

“Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.”

“Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!”

Real Problem Science Can Do Solve Mortality Real Problems

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality. But it's been so much fun! It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”

World Way Giving Done Fun Differences Pleasure Giving Up Curiosity Enormous Making A Difference Protest Mortality Making A Difference In The World

Author:Deborah Meier

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.”

Ends Time Minutes Wave Mortality Shore Toil End Times

Author:William Shakespeare

“I mean, it's hard to talk about death without realizing that's our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death. It's not that I want to be, but it's a fascination of the mind and it plays a role in why I want to live my life a certain way. The more I am aware of my mortality the better person I am and the better I am at choosing a life that is aware of its beauty.”

Way Want Mind Mean Persons Ends Hard Play Certain Realizing Roles Mortality Living My Life Fascination Better Person

Author:Ada Limon

“When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.”

People Body Happens Age Dies Stuff Middle Approach Sick Aging Your Body Mortality Middle Ages Stuff Happens

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.”

Humor Funny Lost Felt Comedy Sticks Mortality Bubbles Flavor Pondering Gum Carefree

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.”

Knows Fun Mortality Good Life Jung Good Reads

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“When you see magazine articles and you go, 'Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is' it has very little to do with the person in question and more to do with the person who's asking the question. People don't want to believe their own mortality.”

People Want Believe Looks Littles Persons Asking Fats Magazines Mortality Articles

Author:RuPaul

“The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul-is available for every affliction in mortality.”

Jesus Christ Healing Lord Jesus Christ Adversity Endure Burden Available Remove Mortality Affliction Apostles Lord Jesus Christ Apostle Paul

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white privilege, mortality comedy of John Hodgman!' That's me!" I'm going to play a sad Handsome Family song at the end and I guarantee you everyone is going to love it because, sometimes, you need a grown man or woman to tell you what you like.”

Ifs Men Needs Ends Sometimes Play Stories Care Song White Comedy Privilege Don't Care Get Up Enjoyed I Don't Care Guarantees Mortality Handsome White Privilege Grown Man

Author:John Hodgman

“Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.”

Thinking Want Giving Kind Happens Life Is Dark My Own Photography Give Me Mortality Things In Life License My Own Life Dark Things

Author:Keith Carter

“For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.”

People Loss Situation Awareness Serious Crisis Illness Awakening Mortality Triggers Serious Illness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.”

World Doe Happens Moving Effects Mortality

Author:Bill Henson

“You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.”

Inspirational Life Is Water Realizing Wall Mortality Fragile Life Is Short

Author:Larry Ellison

“When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.”

Way Ends Profound Witness Mortality Relativity

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”

Knows Ends Terror Mortals Thrive Suspects Mortality Demise

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.”

Self Talking Self Esteem Hair Esteem Vanity Our Family Mortality Our Relationship Framework

Author:Elizabeth Benedict

“Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.”

People Knows Years Children Inspiration Seems Motivation Poverty Millions News Rate Saved Each Day Mortality Nuts

Author:Edward de Bono

“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.”

Knows Men Success Plans Fool Aging Reform Thirty Forty Suspects Mortality Procrastination

Author:Edward Young

“The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.”

“I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be! I 'abhor what is evil,' and I would 'cleave to what is good!' - I am not what I hope to be! Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality: and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was - a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the Apostle, and acknowledge; By the grace of God, I am what I am!”

I Can Evil Wish Sin Grace Ought Slave Acknowledge Satan Mortality Imperfection Imperfect Grace Of God Apostles I Am What I Am

Author:John Newton

“It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.”

Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.”

Care Effects Figures Eating Bills Mental Health Destructive Mortality Agitation

Author:William Falconer

“Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.”

“Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.”

Writing Water Dust Mortality Frail

Author:Francis Bacon

“As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'”

Way Want Wells Dies Culture Accepting Youth Comfortable Mortality Wanting To Die Other Cultures

Author:Alan Ball

“my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.”

Thinking Ideas Philosophy Belief Simple Results Talking Mystery Silent Deeper Tongue Flesh Instant Touched Mortality Sacraments Eucharist Monologues Mystery Of Love

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.”

Needs Writing Trying Humans Hard Done Stories Speak Human Beings Silence Quiet Flow Mortality Short Story Story Writers

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.”

Ifs Men Needs Looks Country Rate Sensitive Mortality Indicators Surrogates Health System

Author:Margaret Chan

“A lot of people are not used to having death in their lives or anything like that and I think that's not incredibly natural either. So it definitely can take its toll. At the same time I think it's important to face your own mortality, which I do most every day by doing the show, to realize that your life is short and to take the opportunities that you need to take and be fearless.”

People Thinking Needs Important Shows Faces Life Is Used Opportunity Realizing Natural Fearless Mortality Life Is Short Tolls

Author:Emily Deschanel

“I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.”

Thinking Knows Self Universe Animal Consciousness Unique Mortality Self Consciousness

Author:Anne Rice

“I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.”

Kind Fall Forget All Kinds Mortality

Author:Sam Keen

“People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.”

“I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in the world? And I thought about it enough that I'm no longer worried about it. I'm not... I don't worry about what's gonna happen in my life. I don't worry about telling me about dying, my own mortality. That's a given.”

World Enough Happens Used Given My Own Careers Worry Failing Dying Succeed Worried Mortality

Author:Walter Mosley

“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.”

Lying Mortality Flavour Heart Of Darkness

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.”

“More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.”

People Has Beens Stills Imagine Childhood Periods Mortality Infant

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.”

Has Beens Body Understanding Infinite Add Immortality Mortality Sensations Craving Enjoyable

Author:Epicurus

“For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.”

Reason Destruction And Love Exciting Mortality Hope And Love

Author:Phil Elvrum

“It's about being in a race with time - just having a strong sense of mortality, and the idea of, How much time do you have left? How do you want to spend it? What I always come up with is: keep on writing, keep on working. But you can become sterile. It's become a matter of trying to find inspiration someplace outside of my own head, which I've been using exclusively for too long.”

Want Writing Trying Long Ideas Matter Inspiration Left Strong My Own Race Come Up Mortality

Author:Joe Frank

“Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!”

Humans Doe Reactions Mortality

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?”

Ifs Men Divine He Man Becoming Pure Vanity What If Mortality Pollution Communion Stains Unchanging

Author:Plato

“The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality”

Should Important Goal Keys Degrees Approach Management Medicine Setting Settings Damage Mortality Setting Goals Reducing Correlation Key Things Minimizing

Author:Abel Aganbegyan

“And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.”

Trying Bitter Mortality Hug Idle Alarms

Book:The Americanness of Walt Whitman

Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman

“We must be born with an intuition of mortality.”

Born Intuition Mortality Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Book:Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image of the God I serve. There are none but what have a certain portion of divinity within them; and though we are clothed with bodies which are in the image of our God, yet this mortality shrinks before that portion of divinity which we inherit from our Father.”

Looks Body Faces Certain Father Intelligent Look Up Divinity Mortality Portions Shrinks Our Father

Author:Brigham Young

“Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.”

Source: The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

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