(38 quotes found)
“Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again”
Buddha
“We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.”
Anatole France
“In the long haul, you are looking at the rebirth of one of the historically successful industries of Pensacola . . . the fishing and diving industry.”
Ed Schroeder
“Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.”
Woody Allen
“The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held”
“Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, / If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn. / Should Christ be born a thousand times anew, / Despair, O man, unless he's born in you!”
Angelus Silesius
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
Confucius
“Now the New Year reviving old Desires,/ The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,/ Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough/ Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.”
Edward Fitzgerald
“Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.”
Albert Einstein
