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Quotes About Reincarnation

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.
~ Arturo Toscanini
You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.
~ Frederick Lenz
The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.
~ Frederick Lenz
You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.
~ Frederick Lenz
You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.
~ Frederick Lenz
If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.
~ Frederick Lenz
For many centuries Christians also believed in the idea of reincarnation, and it wasn't until the Second Council of Constantinople in A.D. 553 that reincarnation was officially declared a heresy and mention of it was stricken from public texts. The powers that be didn't like the idea of people getting infinite chances to get it right, because then you wouldn't need the church to offer you salvation.
~ James Van Praagh
Perhaps we all reappear, perhaps all our lives are impositions one on another.
~ E.L. Doctorow
But if you believe God's divine judgment and you countenance reincarnation, then it may be reasonably assumed that a certain bacterium living in the anus of a particularly ancient hatchetfish at the bottom of the ocean is the recycled and fully sentient soul of Adolf Hitler glimmering miserably through the cloacal muck in which he is periodically bathed and nourished.
~ E.L. Doctorow
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
~ Alexander Pope
If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.
~ Max Heindel
My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
~ Gillian Anderson
General Studies Question: Redundancy is often an unpleasant and unexpected event in someone's life. Give two examples of unexpected life events. Answer: 1) death 2) Reincarnation
~ Richard Benson
Fate causes the old soul to forget all the many regions it has traveled over time, and all the punishments it has endured along the way. This forgetfulness becomes the body that surrounds the soul. It pretends to be the soul, but it is a false spirit.
~ Richard Hooper
Isis and Horus, he said. I see you've found new bodies.
~ Rick Riordan
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
~ Stanislav Grof
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
~ Willie Davis
This is another reason we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again. Sometimes even in this same lifetime.
~ David Michie
If there is a very strong connection, sometimes the same being can come back again and again.
~ David Michie
We are connected to each other through innumerable lifetimes and in limitless ways.
~ David Michie
Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.
~ Jeanne M. Lee
For the first time, though only in private, he began incrementally revealing the considerable divide between the Bible-based religion he still preached and his true beliefs. Jones talked about reincarnation—not only his faith in it, but his conviction that "Jim Jones" was simply the latest physical manifestation of a spirit previously occupying the earthly bodies of other great men, all of them dedicated to equality and justice.
~ Jeff Guinn
Misschien meer geluk in je volgende incarnatie, Mamba, dacht ze.
~ Alison Baird