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1 " I'll follow you to the next life if I have to," he whispered harshly in her ear. " You'll never be free of me. I'll chase you through heaven and hell and beyond." He continued to whisper without stopping while his hands gripped her body close to his. " You stay with me, Holly," he muttered savagely. " Don't do this to me. You stay, damn you. "
2 " Do we need to wait until the next life to experience true happiness? Of course not; we can experience it now. By making that choice to be happy and optimistic, we can have a little bit of Heaven on Earth. "
― , The Happy Lady
3 " There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now. "
― , Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
4 " Wolves and Doves mate for life. I hope in the next life I am one of the two. "
― Amanda Mosher , Better to be able to love than to be loveable
5 " Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one. "
― Sam Harris , The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
6 " May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... In our religion, we believe in reincarnation. We live many times, you see, always seeking to be wiser and more virtuous. If we eventually lead a blameless life, a perfect life, we leave this world and need not endure it again. Between our human lives, we may be reincarnated as other creatures. Sometimes, when someone has led a nearly perfect life but is not yet worthy of nirvana, that person is reincarnated as a very beautiful dog. When the life as the dog comes to an end, the person is reincarnated one last time as a human being, and lives a perfect life. Your dog is a person who has almost arrived at complete enlightenment and will in the next life be perfect and blameless, a very great person. You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul. "
― Dean Koontz , A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
