Mortality Quotes - Page 19

• In Sweden for example people with PhDs have lower mortality than those with a masters degree. And people with a masters degree or a professional degree are not poor.

  Michael Marmot

  People, Degrees, Example

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• It is Christ's atonement that makes it possible for us to be forgiven of our sins and His resurrection that gives us the assurance of immortality and the life to come. It is that life to come that orients our views in mortality and reinforces our determination to live the laws of God so that we can qualify for His blessings in immortality.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Determination, Blessing, Views

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Same-gender attraction did not exist in the pre-earth life and neither will it exist in the next life. It is a circumstance that for whatever reason or reasons seems to apply right now in mortality, in this nano-second of our eternal existence.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Earth Life, Next, Reason

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how much more I have to learn. It's a singular feeling, both spiritual and corporeal, and I like to think it sparks the same inspiration and curiosity in a child that it does in an old man.

  Kit Williamson

  Spiritual, Children, Inspiration

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• Often the lack of clear direction and goals can waste away our time and energy and contribute to imbalance in our lives. A life that gets out of balance is much like a car tire that is out of balance. It will make the operation of the car rough and unsafe. Tires in perfect balance can give a smooth and comfortable ride. So it is with life. The ride through mortality can be smoother for us when we strive to stay in balance.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Clear Direction, Giving, Perfect

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• After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.

  Miranda July

  Wise, Silly, Book

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• Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

  Atul Gawande

  Acceptance, Arriving, Epiphany

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• If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

  Ernest Becker

  Destiny, Self, Perfect

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• Remember, loving them is the powerful foundation for influencing those you want to help. ... As a companion to that love, trust them. In some cases it may seem difficult to trust, but find some way to trust them. The children of Father in Heaven can do amazing things when they feel trusted. Every child of God in mortality chose the Savior’s plan. Trust that given the opportunity, they will do so again.

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, Children, Father

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• Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

  LeCrae

  Pieces, Shapes, Waste

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• So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life And Death, Feel Good, Feelings

  "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 1), 1932.

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• When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

  Charles Finch

  Oxford, Flow, Students

  Charles Finch (2008). “The September Society”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

  Peter Stillman

  Giving, Darkness, Bombs

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• We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

  Simon Schama

  Cheating, Grieving, Promise

  Simon Schama (2004). “Hang-ups: Essays on Painting (mostly)”, BBC Books

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• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Growing Up, Thinking, Should

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• The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

  Conor Oberst

  Goodbye, Nice, Thinking

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• It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Twilight

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• There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without a plan, could speak a spontaneous, unexpected truth, because revelation rules. Telling words recur in this smart, generous conversation between Stephen Andrews and Gregg Bordowitz: patience, responsibility, feminism, ethics, cosmology, AIDS, gift, freedom, mortality.

  Lynne Tillman

  Art, Lying, Responsibility

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• I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Kids, Thinking, Scared

  "MH Grill: Dolph Lundgren". Interview with Brittany Kennedy, www.menshealth.co.uk. February 19, 2013.

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• how seasonably
  leaf and blossom uncurl
  and living things arrange their death,
  while someone from afar off
  blows birthday candles for the world.

  Irving Layton

  Blow, World, Afar

  Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

  William Davis

  Sports, Jumping, Climbing

  William Davis (2014). “Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health”, p.88, Rodale

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• You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Horse, Littles, Realizing

  "Jennifer Lawrence Was Afraid "Katniss Would Overwhelm" Other Work" by Lauren Turner, www.popsugar.com. September 13, 2012.

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• The mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort marry again and again. According to Agricola, at the mines in the Carpathian mountains, women have been known to marry seven times.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Health, Men, Mountain

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”

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• As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of my own mortality and time itself becomes more precious. I don't want to spend this precious and limited time on things that don't necessarily bring me happiness.

  Justin Long

  Moving, People, Stronger

  "Justin Long's Short List of Career Musts". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

  James Balog

  Humility, Ice, Tree

  Source: collider.com

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