Achievement Quote by Laozi

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.

— Frederick Lenz

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

— Edgar Lee Masters

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

— Francis Quarles

Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

— Wang Yangming

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

— Woody Allen

Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

— Frederick Lenz

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

— Mel Brooks

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they…

— Hannah Arendt

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

— Gregory Maguire

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict,…

— Laozi