All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.
The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.
The natural laws of the universe are inviolable. . . what you say and do determines what happens in your life. . . You are the master of your life and death. What you do is what you are.
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.
Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday.
I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
I don't want them to be told to remember me.
For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.
For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept
. . . I don't understand this gap you see between us, but can't you meet me somewhere in the middle?" "The middle of what?" "I don't know, the middle of tomorrow and forever, the middle of life and death, the middle of normal and paranormal. Where we've always been. " I bit my lip, nodding against his forehead. "There's a place for us there, right?" "Always. " He put his lips to mine, sealing our own little spot in the world. Together.
I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of life and death, meaning just the breathing and living and thinking experience-that's what art is.
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.