Following quote from a 2013 study on the phenomenon, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
“A lot of people thought that the brain, after clinical death, was inactive or hypoactive, with less activity than the waking state, and we show that is definitely not the case,” said Dr. Jimo Borjigin, who led the study.
“If anything, it is much more active during the dying process than even the waking state.”
– Alex Lasker
AOL.com • July 3, 2019
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-died-27-minutes-writes-161046083.html
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“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
– Bill Watterson
“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
– Dave Barry
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
“You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.”
– George Burns
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
– George Carlin
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
– Groucho Marx
“If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
– Mark Twain
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
– Mark Twain
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
– Steven Wright
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
– Will Rogers
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”
– Will Rogers
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
– William James
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.”
– Yogi Berra
“Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is govern by our mental attitude.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
– Albert Schweitzer
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”
– Bertrand Russell
“When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.”
– Immanuel Kant
“Some people cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
– Aristotle
“Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within YOURSELF in your way of thinking.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln