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• It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

  Ovid

  Men, Soul, Mind

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• To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

  John Berger

  Feelings, This Life, Closest

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• Wander a whole summer if you can.  Time will not be taken from the sum of life.  Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

  John Muir

  Summer, Taken, Wander

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• The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Procrastination, Men, Truth Is

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.64, New Directions Publishing

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• The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Children, Giving Up

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• We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎

  John Muir

  Nature, Science, Glasses

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.161, Library of America

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• If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.

  Joseph Lister

  Science, Practice, Wish

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• I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

  Tom Clancy

  Book, Memorable, Names

  "King Of The 'Techno-thriller'" by Patrick Anderson, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

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• Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Plato, Soul, Body

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• great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Art, Creativity, Fullness Of Life

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Taken, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creative

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Wall, Moving

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Ideas, Drawing, Names

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.114

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• True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Love, Sake, Labor

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.580, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Soul, And Love

  George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.247, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Look within.
  Within you is the hidden God.
  Within you is the immortal soul.
  Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure.
  Within you is the ocean of bliss.
  Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Ocean, Soul

  Swami Sivananda (1944). “Gyana Yoga”

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• Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

  Michael Scott

  Men, Thinking, Perspective

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• You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Behemoth, Said, Protest

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• Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fate, Winter, Bored

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• I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

  Mira Grant

  Annoyed, Facts

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• It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

  Julius Caesar

  Punishment, Long, May

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• I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Winning, Soul, Commodity

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• If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space. For the simple fact of the matter is, the planet Earth is doomed... Let us follow many environmentalists and regard the Earth as Gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). Gaia, like all mothers, is not immortal. She is going to die. But her line of descent might be immortal. . . . Gaia's children might never die out-provided they move into space. The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life-but one cannot remain in the womb forever.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Mother, Children, Moving

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