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• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

  William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

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• Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials, which school was necessary for Jesus, our Elder Brother, who, the scriptures tell us, ‘was made perfect through suffering.’ It is necessary that we suffer in all things, that we may be qualified and worthy to rule, and govern all things, even as our Father in Heaven and His eldest son, Jesus.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Jesus, Brother, Father

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• While [the] precious, vital message [of the Restoration] has been proclaimed across the world, Satan has been most effective in causing people to ignore it or to look in the wrong places for it. The vast majority of Father's children have not only forgotten their Father in Heaven and the purpose of mortal life, but they rarely even think of Him nor ponder for what purpose they are here in mortality. They have been led to be absorbed by mundane things that distract them from the essential ones. Don't you make that mistake.

  Richard G. Scott

  Children, Father, Mistake

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• The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Children, Self

  "In defence of self-help books" by Alain de Botton, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Order, Challenges

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• Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become immortal and subsist on killing others. His parents were dead now, but that didn't stop people from not trusting him. They seemed to think he'd go Strigoi at any moment and take everyone else with him. His abrasiveness and dark sence of humor didn't really help things, either.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Dark, Thinking

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• It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

  J. K. Rowling

  Immortality, Strive, Accepting

  "Rowling Chats about Deathly Hallows". Interview with Lev Grossman, techland.time.com. July 31, 2007.

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• Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Joy, Missionary, Return

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2016

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• There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the Savior did not experience first. In a moment of weakness we may cry out, “No one knows what it is like. No one understands.” But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He has felt and borne our individual burdens.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Pain, Son

  "Bear Up Their Burdens with Ease". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Loss, Serious Illness, People

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• 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.

  Bill Henson

  Moving, Doe, World

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• 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.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Wall, Life Is Short

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• 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.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Dark, Thinking

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• 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.

  John Hodgman

  Song, Men, Play

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• 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.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Adversity, Healing

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• 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.

  RuPaul

  Believe, People, Looks

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• 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.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Fun, Good Life, Good Reads

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• 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.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Sick, Age

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Profound, Way, Ends

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

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Self Esteem, Vanity, Hair

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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• We declare our belief in Jesus Christ and accept Him as our Savior. He will bless us and guide us in all of our efforts. As we labor here in mortality, He will strengthen us and bring us peace in time of trials. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints walk by faith in Him whose Church it is.

  L. Tom Perry

  Jesus, Effort, Church

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• The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Consideration, Eternal, Manage

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• Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

  Dan Millman

  Greatest Fear, Wings, Forever

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• Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

  David A. Bednar

  Adversity, Suffering, Needs

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• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Giving, Contentment

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