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afterlife aiming aspiration beyond futility generates hope lose mindless paradise picked prospect sight taken
By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib. Michel Onfray
afterlife judgment protect
I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. Charlotte Gainsbourg
afterlife people over-you
Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people. Bill Maher
afterlife cannot hit life looking perfect pounds rather
I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.' Drew Barrymore
afterlife profound funny-graduation
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. Art Buchwald
afterlife soul gauges
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. Anton Chekhov
afterlife age get-better
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. Bonnie Raitt
afterlife babies chance guys happened later might novel speculate three
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive. Gil Scott-Heron
afterlife gold purses
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. Adelbert von Chamisso
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people missionary christianity
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary. Charles Studd
people littles controversy
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested. Charles Stross
people church opinion
I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church. Charles Stanley
people waiting lord
The Lord's people have always been a waiting people. Charles Spurgeon
people sin made
People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
over-you trouble mercy
Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.
over-you together film
You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage. Al Pacino
over-you answers needs
When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death. Carlos Castaneda
over-you cards credit
Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent. Charlie Munger
over-you purpose care
Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference. Charles Garfield
over-you phases way
I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung. Beth Gibbons
over-you stories details
You never have to look over your shoulder when you tell the truth. You never have to remember the details, because they are what they are. And you don't have to make sure your story matches everyone else's. Charlie Sheen
over-you age youth
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day. Brad Pitt
over-you pay shows
When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do. Jamie Farr