Quote by Aldous Huxley
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed t

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

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Freedom
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. – Aldous Huxley

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God
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. – Aldous Huxley

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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. – Edward Young

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In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. – Carol P. Christ

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Death

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon

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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. – E. W. Howe

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Death

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Life grows beautiful flowers over old scars. – Terri Guillemets

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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. – David Suzuki

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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. – George Grenville

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I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. – Pierre Loti

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sad