"Whether it is seen in personal terms or……" — John Smith
"Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now."
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30 Quotes by John Smith
John Smith has 30 quotes on this site.
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Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured…
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The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.
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Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no…
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The feeling is that the end game is in play for Iraq and we saw this yesterday, but the reality…
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History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.
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As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine…
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You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse…
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The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.
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The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.
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Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands,…
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He who does not work, will not eat
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Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait.…
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem…
— John Boehner
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
— George Carlin
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
— Paulo Coelho
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that…
— William Ames
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven…
— Isaac Asimov
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The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
— Woody Allen
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
— Woody Allen
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