The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. - Theodore Roosevelt
Almost all our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence. - Marty Rubin
I would prefer to live with bleeding heart where desire see darkness of uncertainty because I need to know the existence of love - Seema Gupta
The greatest religion you can ever have throughout your entire existence, is Love. - Abhijit Naskar
Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void - Dean Cavanagh
It is often amidst the chaos in our life that we finally find the reason for our existence. - Divya Nambiar
I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer. - Marcellin Berthelot
My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence - John Paul Warren
Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity - Chinonye J. Chidolue
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC - Kurt Vonnegut
You are my heart, my life, my entire existence. Z_m - ZAKIYA AND MAJID
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. - Friedrich Nietzsche
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist! - C.S. Lewis
Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life to live. … The crisis is the very mystery of our existence and the yearning for there to be some kind of meaning to it. - Andrew Root
Only those who are brainwashed and foolsbelieve in the existence of a god.Those who are indifferent just pretend. - A.J. Beirens
The mystery of existence is the connection between our wins and our losses. - George Alexiou
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith. - Thomas Jefferson
Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity - Suman Pokhrel
... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which survive us, and which are then thrown back into the common stock from which they are soon gathered again and ascribed other roles in other circumstances. - Andrew Motion
We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life. - Leo Tolstoy
To love you would have to relate, you are a more perfect being if your own existence is logically impossible. - Henry Johnson Jr
Each day of your existence ready’s itself for your impact - Todd Stocker
But you have to realize that it doesn't matter how your films are going to stack up against other people's. You have to stop whining about it and just get to work. Just do it. Because in the work is your existence. That's what you're here for.
What do you do when your words aren't enough? What do you do when your actions have no effect? What do you do when all the fibers of your existence scream just to be heard? And yet, only the most deafening silence returns the echoes of your screams. Is there something beyond words and action? - Hubert Martin
Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. - Herbert W. Boyer
For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt. - Martin Cosgrove
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. - Jeanette Winterson
The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn’t in the character, it’s in the underlying truth. - Jed McKenna
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness. - Thomas Henry Huxley
When psychologically unfit form the majority in any sect, and yet proclaim to be the only fittest, will not only be a threat to the existence of the sane minority, but are surely catastrophic for the human race as a whole! - Ramana Pemmaraju
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity. - Alfred North Whitehead
God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence. - Swami Dhyan Giten
Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do with first and last things – questions such as How did everything begin? What are we all here for? What is the point of living? - Sir Peter Medawar
I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. - Chris Matakas
Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one noticed. We are to accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously. - Yukio Mishima
Time is the skin of existence. - Renzo Dante (Saligiare)
The light at the end of the tunnel is for those who believe that there is an existence of light. - Coleen Innis
Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. - Thomas Jefferson
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. - Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a dream. It moves from cause to cause, effect to effect, one point to another, one state of existence to another. - Aditya Ajmera
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. - Karl Lagerfeld
Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy! - Mehmet Murat ildan
We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. - Allen Lane
If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The spirit of man is not a created being; it existed from eternity and will exist to eternity. Anything created cannot be eternal; and earth, water, ect., had their existence in an elementary state, from eternity." ~Joseph Smith, Jr., 2 July 1839 - Documentary History of the Church 3:387 - Joseph Smith Jr.
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. - Frank Herbert
Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises! - Mehmet Murat ildan
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. - John F. Kennedy
An answer gone unanswered will be answered in a parallel universe. Existence is classified in unrecorded dimensions. - Vishwanath S J
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. - Ursula K. Le Guin
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. - Charles Ives
Fear is the limit of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss. - Brennan Manning
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot
I don't question our existence. I just question our modern needs. - Pearl Jam
No m’lord. It wouldn’t be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence. - Gary Edward Gedall
I’m fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time. - Charlotte Eriksson
Mind gives us an existence in duality; Spirituality gives us the knowledge in non-duality. Unless we narrow this gap, we will never experience the ultimate reality. - Gian Kumar
[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
Existence of existence depends on what exists on your existence!! - Balkrishn Sanmotra
Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life’s experience in the plurality of existence and measured in a love shared? - Don Swann II
Speak success into existence. - Bianca Frazier
The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life itself. - Valley Brown
Existence has billions of doors, but death has none! - Mehmet Murat ildan
To see the beauties, mysteries and magics of your existence look at it with intense love, child's wonder and joyful heart. - Debasish Mridha
We came to this world to enjoy the magic of love, the beauty of existence, and the joy of life. We did not come to this world to look for money and fame. - Debasish Mridha
...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist'] - Herman Bondi
Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life. - Marty Rubin
If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence. - Sunday Adelaja
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all. - Rollo May
God’s existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another. - Kamand Kojouri
My Existence is To Praise God and Help Others! - Marie Claudine MUKAMABANO
Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path. - Gordon Atkinson
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement. - Lewis Thomas
Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief. - Dada Bhagwan
The Darkness of the black night is commencing over the white wobbling flowers at the bay of the stream whose water is sparkling and is running down from those earthly mountains to surrender into your arms full of happiness and love....It cherishes your existence and so do i do... - AashiQi
If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you’re delusional. Your emotion is part you. You’re made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence. - Ann Marie Aguilar
We are not at the pinnacle of our power, of our existence. We have scrambled to the top of an ant-hill at the bottom of the world’s highest mountain. We have long way still to climb. - The Blue Mountain - G.R. Matthews
Every living soul is given the grace of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. - C.G. Jung
I have never felt the need to worship someone or something, but I recognize the beauty of creation, the miraculosity of existence, and honor the genius behind the scene, who came up with all of this. - Stefan Emunds
Consciousness is who we really are; thoughts, feelings, and emotions are passing and temporary, but consciousness is existence. - Belsebuub
Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them. - Jason E. Hodges
Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation. - Maxim Gorky
Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we’d be intolerable creatures. - Tiffany Madison
Finding yourself with your loves gives blood to existence, looking at one another seeing the universe. - Gwen Calvo
Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence. - Julianne Davidow
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. - Anatole France
The goodness of life is the gratitude of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence. - Michael S. Harper
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God. - Meister Eckhart
Existence precedes and rules essence. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Light was the first thing that came into existence, first in the order of creation. - Sunday Adelaja
people are too quick to give their hearts away, i mean, be fearless; run wild into their arms, but for goodness sake know your worth. A being of wisdom knows their heart is the breath of their existence and only a honorable love deserves to feel it at its purest form. - Nikki Rowe
The simplicity of existence is that it is. The complexity of existence is that it is not. - Réné Gaudette
The purpose of four incarnative existence is the evolution of the soul. It is to learn, grow and become master of our own life. - Thomas Vazhakunnathu
When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.When you see people, you sympathize their existence. - Mustafa SULTAN
The real you is not sad, angry, depressed, ashamed, hurt, bitter or lost. These things are not real. They feel real but they're not. As spiritual beings living a brief human existence, this is not who we are. We are beautiful, radiant, joyful and loving. - Sue Fitzmaurice
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead. - Anthon St. Maarten
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. - Brian Greene
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. - Richard Dawkins
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities. - Sorin Cerin
Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone. - Amitav Chowdhury
Accepting the nonexistence of being,when the absence of existence means the negation of being. - Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. - C.G. Jung
Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social existence. - Germaine Greer
You are educated when you learn to coexist with othersAnd as a result you enhance the whole existence. - Debasish Mridha
The greatest realization is dawn of my sacred existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything I see in this existence tells me that we were created by the hand of a teacher. One that has left behind all the materials needed to inspire and complete our education. - Robert Anthony
At the core of the heart of an atheist is a heart that doesn't deny the existence, sovereignty and power of God but it chooses deliberately not to believe it for a long while. - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. - Henry David Thoreau
I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. - Leo Tolstoy
Claiming that a person who views the Bible as nothing but a compendium of myths is thus denying the existence of a Creator is like claiming a person who rejects the junk science behind ‘man-made global warming’ is denying the existence of atmosphere. - Dave Champion
The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out. - Aldous Huxley
Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. - W. Somerset Maugham
The New World Order is established by degrees. The first degree is truth of the one subject, which follows from the existence and the oneness of the universe, and from the ancient belief that God is all-knowing. - Compton Gage
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man - T.S. Eliot
A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To breathe,to breathe is nothing more than confirmation of the existence of your soulwhether you believe it or not,whether you live or cease to fight - Alba Avila
In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three. - Henry Martin
The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take ‘nothing’ and imagine ‘something’ from ‘nothing.’ And that is God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God’s existence. - Juhani Peltonen
Embrace the beauty of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. - Elihu Burritt
The existence of things does not depend on the existence of words. - Marty Rubin
Sometimes, I marvel at the wonderof how graceful words seem to appearpen to paper; in others' handsAnd I think to myself-oh, how obsolete my existence is,to be unable to do the same. - Joy Chua
I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. - Charles Bukowski
Perfection is, however, not to be sought in the future, as we are fully capable of experiencing it here and now, if we abandon ourselves into the present moment and allow the pleasure of Existence take us with it. - Frank Wanderer
Her whole existence was calling his name and she had no clue where SHE actually was... He continued his path on achieving his goals because he knew that was the source of her scream... Secretly or not she was the biggest of them all - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world. - Dinesh D'Souza
In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence. - Asa Don Brown
Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing clutter can completely transform your entire existence. - Karen Kingston
For some people, the point of no return begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others’ existence. - C. JoyBell C.
We breathe in as existence, and breathe out as life. It is the heartbeat of the eternal moment. - Franklin Gillette
Divine Love is the key to all of existence. Without it, nothing can survive. Every one of us is only seeking one thing. Though it is called by many names (God, Alpha and Omega, Allah, etc..) it's ultimate name is Divine Love. - C.Michelle Gonzalez
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. - Anaïs Nin
Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters. - Carla H. Krueger
Innovations shapes the future and our willingness to explore it makes our existence meaningful. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
In the very existence of this book we have a most concrete example of the manner in which at least one of these marvellous creatures [cats], acquiring both an editor and a publisher, has advanced the eventual complete feline take-over of the human race. - Paul Gallico
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence. - Samuel Butler
If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living. - Munia Khan
Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence. - Munia Khan
Through my seeking of what is beyond beautiful, of what is intriguing, of what is free from all imperfections and wrongs, I realise my soul is not from here. I belong to a different place, from a different world, a different existence. - Khadija Rupa
I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence. - Kevin J. Anderson
The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around. - Osho
If you are confident, you have the courage for existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing. - Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862
Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness. - Israelmore Ayivor
Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings. - Humberto R. Maturana
My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence. - Michelle Geaney
I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts. - Michael Ruse
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber. - Sri Aurobindo
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously. - Friedrich Nietzsche
He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. - Honoré de Balzac
You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die. - Lionel Suggs
A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. - Sydney Smith
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free. - Swami Vivekananda
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice. - Anton Chekhov
Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area. - Xaviera Hollander
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. - Ambrose Bierce
The presence of a path doesn’t necessarily mean the existence of a destination. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails - James Joyce
George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence - Henrik Bering
I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me. - Kamand Kojouri
If the context is lost and merely bits and pieces remain from a scattered existence, only the connection of anchor points may reinstate a distorted mental balance in an upset life story. ("Lost the global story." ) - Erik Pevernagie
Creativity is an integral part of existence and it emanates from the mind. - Wogu Donald
Boredom slays more of existence than war. - Norman Mailer
The most powerful element in this Universe is love. If you think it does not exist, then you are not sure about your own existence too. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. - George Bernard Shaw
Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat. - Greenhaven
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin
To say that my existence is entirely inconsequential is to utterly ignore the amazing reality that life is a masterful story penned by a brilliant God who wrote me into the story in such a way that my absence would literally diminish the whole of the story. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. - Fay Weldon
They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time. - Nadine Gordimer
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess. - Marcel Duchamp
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence. - Albert Camus
we all love people in our life. way of expressing it may change but the intensity never fluctuates. there are comparisons and fights in any relation because of the same reason of their existence. - Auliq Ice
Do you truly believe in the worthiness of your dreams? Do you truly think they are worth the consistent effort required to make them manifest? Once you truly believe, nothing can stop you but yourself, for such belief is the same power which creates and maintains all existence. - Stephen Richards
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence. - John Quincy Adams
Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man. - Indiana Lang
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence. - Léon Bloy
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge - Ravi Zacharias
Through the "Strength" of one and his simple existence, there will be a transformation over time that will affect many because of just one life, while the "Survival" of many more will suddenly and triumphantly become much more than just a possibility. - J.D. Stark
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. - Alan Moore
The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
We must live a life that is not geared towards living today but our existence after existing and exiting the earth. We must think of our footprints that will long exist after our existence come to its ebb. We must get reasons for existing. For what reasons are you existing? - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The natural laws of life is not an idea but the truth that holds life on existence. Once you realize the truth within, all your problems and queries of life, cease to exist. - Roshan Sharma
No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence - Mazigh Buzakhar
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. - Carl Jung
The glory of life is strength of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
...the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness. - F. Sionil José
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Bertrand Russell
The God who is human in his divinity is the precise opposite of an essence which in ill-willed fashion closes itself to all human thought and knowledge... As love, rather, God is thinkable, without a distinction capable of made between essence and existence. Love is essentially existing lovingly. - Eberhard Jüngel
Too often fantasy is not a rich elaboration of life designed to enhance our existence, rather it is our pell-mell escape from life with the intent of exiting this existence. And the most imaginative fantasy of all is to somehow think that I can do that in the first place. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion. - C.S. Lewis
Explore the infinite possibilities in existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If truth be told, I came away ‘almost’ believing in their existence. (Author on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar) - Nikki B.
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
The moment of existence is miraculous. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. - Theodore Roosevelt
God is the name given by theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God; the whole existence is made of the stuff called love. - Osho
Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
When we surrender to a purposeless existence, we are surrendering to death way ahead of death’s actual arrival. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence. - Doug Dillon
Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing. - Steven Lake
Let's make our existence more joyous, fulfilled and full of positive adventures... Let's add more vivid colors to life in the world around us: making it happier, merrier, easier, healthier, tastier and brighter! Our project is a constant source of inspiration to support these ideas. - Sahara Sanders
If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. - Oscar Wilde
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.
Do not wait for someone else to validate your existence; it is your own responsibility. - Jasz Gill
Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
No.. You have wonYou can never loseI won't let you loseYou are destined to winYou are destined to live in prosperity ..and to tell you.. You have won my existence!! - Anonymous
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. - Gordon Atkinson
The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence. - A.W. Tozer
Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there. - Debasish Mridha
He smiled then, and that smile was like the sunset, stretching from one end of her existence to the other, lighting her way not by sight, but with a slow kindle inside she knew would never leave her bereft for the sun's warmth. - Joey W. Hill
We are the oneness in love, joy and happy. We share this moment in time to experience the fullest and expansion of all our existence to collapse and be redefine into the truth of who and what we are and always will be. ~jh - Jennifer Hillman
People say - popular culture advocates - government demands that we sell our souls, for nothing but the cheapest of baubles and bling, if even that. If you do sell, the result is a gray, cheerless, and dreary existence. - Mike Klepper
Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well. - Seema Gupta
Grace is gladness of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence - J.F. Kennedy
The greatest success any person can have is to truly embrace and enjoy their daily existence. - Marty Rubin
It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma. - Colleen Truscott Fry
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. - Seneca
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer
Dying and living, weeping and laughing--all parts of our existence here on earth. What would happen in your friendships if together you embraced the hard parts of life and did not fear weeping together? - Afton Rorvik
Purpose is the vision for your existence. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. - Bede Griffiths
Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence did not begin with your birth and it will not end with your death. Your soul lived before and will live on and on and on...so what you do now matters later. Choose wisely. - Toni Sorenson
What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning; what is the meaning of human existence? - David W. Earle
Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted. - Doug Dillon
Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard. - Guy de Maupassant
We have to accept that there are certain things in our life that are inescapable. These are the things that come natural to us and are necessary to our existence. - Auliq Ice
You are the reality.The sense of of worship, love, devotion and loyalty.You are the purpose of life and existence. That is why I am still alive. - M.F. Moonzajer
The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence. - Nicole Krauss
There is nothing in this universe which is not in struggle to keep its existence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. - Aristotle
Your impact on others is the only proof of your existence - Silje Akselberg Iversen
I am a lover born to love each part and parcel of the universe with my deep intense emotions. I love to connect with the world and each connection enriches my existence as it blends in my identity. - Harshada Pathare
I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery. - James Dean
If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me. - David G. McAfee
To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature! - Mehmet Murat ildan
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics. - Isidor Isaac Rabi
Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance, - Shah Asad Rizvi
Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in. - Franklin Gillette
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than any existence of mediocrity. - James Fenimore Cooper
I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker’s head if they’re not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it’s bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God’s face when it’s bitter - Gustave Flaubert
Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought. - James Rozoff
I don't discuss evolution, to believe the theory is to deny many known evidences about the existence of a supreme creator (God) those who hold on to that view are in denials of reality and are by so doing ignorant - Oluseyi Akinbami
He who denies the existence of a truth because it sounds negative creates a vacuum that draws the darkness unto him.
Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. - Nikola Tesla
When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence. - E.B. Hudspeth
If we really are spiritual beings living a physical existence, then we have incredible power. - Sue Fitzmaurice
Curiosity is the essence of our existence. - Gene Cernan
How do you wish to live in lifetime existence; envying, hating and loving? It is better to live life loving - Lailah Gifty Akita
A friend is someone who makes you a better version of yourself just by being who they are. Their existence is your inspiration. - Toni Sorenson
Explore your sacred existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena. - Nikola Tesla
Most of our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence. - Marty Rubin
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence. - Augustine Birrell
Sometimes you should ask yourself if the world would be a better place without your existence, then you would know if you are on the right path or not. - Gugu Mona
The child's existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her. - Mary Costello
Animals, birds, and fish confirm Your power and Your existence. - Euginia Herlihy
Never give up on your dreams, without them life is just an existence. - Heather Welch
Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference. - Kurt Vonnegut
When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature - Tzvetan Todorov
Art is the refreshing source of existence. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The best way to protect evil, to deny it existence. - VicDo
It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Simple, don't tell about something exist in an extinction and don't tell about something extinct in an existence. - Haris Yanuar
Life is a gift. Accept the sacred existence - Lailah Gifty Akita
I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed. - Steve Allen
The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous. - Lloyd Alexander
What is the own self of God? Where is the existence of God? He is within a human body. If any man achieves the Godhood, then his form will be manifested within others and transform them into his own form in the spiritual world. And that transformation does not occur after death - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe
The coward says in his heart There is no love. Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it. - C. JoyBell C.
The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer. - Franz Kafka
Physical existence is finite.- . - Sagar Gorijala
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. - T. Scott McLeod
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. - Noah Levine
Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief. - Robert Fanney
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. - Erich Fromm
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that. - Jack Kevorkian
when a lifestyle is created from the existence of your dream, you dont leave any room for failure. - Nikki Rowe
But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids! - C.G. Jung
was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience… Erwin Schrödinger - Plato
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by , evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. Ernst W. Mayr - Lamarck
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. - Clifford Geertz
Most of our troubles are imaginary. We think them into existence. - Marty Rubin
A life without adversity is just bland existence. - Aaron Dennis
If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body. - M.F. Moonzajer
A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron. - Richard Feynman
We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves. - Gwendolyn Brooks
What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is wonderful if you know how to live. However, it is now how long you live in life but how impactful is your existence on earth. - Adedayo Olabamiji
Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion. - Sameh Elsayed
You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence. - Pooja Ruprell
What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love! - Mehmet Murat ildan
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. - George Gordon Byron
One can enjoy existence, not life. - Jean-Luc Godard
I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility. - Lionel Suggs
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. - Lois McMaster Bujold
When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives. - Raphael Zernoff
We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" ) - Erik Pevernagie
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. - Woody Allen
When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall. - Adolf Hitler
Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence. - Ayn Rand
For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence. - Yohji Yamamoto
The threat of frustration of a biological urge does not cause conflict and anxiety unless that urge is identified with some value essential to the existence of the personality. - Rollo May
It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you. - Josh Lieb
Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself. - Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Anger suffocates your mind, body and soul. The ability to love amidst anger is a true blessing and it transcends our existence! - Monica Chrisandtras Hines
Much of our existence is to deal with steep problems and slippery solutions; the rest is the celebration of life! - Abhijit Kar Gupta
Spirituality is the strength of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all. - Christopher Charles Harris
To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. - George Santayana
Without consciousness there is no existence! - Rupesh Sreeraman
As I was contemplating each second of your existence, the sound of nothing but your delicate breathing, brings me back the memories of experiences I have not yet experienced - Stephen Clayworth
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. - Joseph Smith Jr.
I have more fear in me than I have faith, blood and soul. I fear the past and I fear the future and it makes my existence in the present moment violently fragile. - VaZaki Nada
Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was someone for whom even happiness would cry for, mourning the death of his sentiments and murdering the existence of his soul. - Faraaz Kazi
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Zappa
Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness. - Shah Asad Rizvi
The biggest trick of power may be to make its own existence unseen. - Amine Zidouh
There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle of existence. - Otto von Bismarck
You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Om is the signature sound of this Universe. It is the soundless sound of existence. - Banani Ray
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. - Swami Vivekananda
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. - Erich Fromm
Existence is an is, not a why. - Marty Rubin
If you live with the limited beliefs of your mind, you cannot see life, beyond the physical existence, while in reality, the life happens at a much deeper level. - Roshan Sharma
My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations. - Peter Atkins
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - Vladimir Nabokov
Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there’s a sentence written especially for us. - Pietro Citati
Why is my existence so perfect with dark places? And why do I no longer care?
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. - Eugene V. Debs
What?" I asked."Nothing," he said."Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. - John Green
Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no such existence of Atma or Soul separately. That is a doctrine. In Vedas they are saying God’s light and then and there they are saying ‘He is the best man.’ So why do you call this best man as Atma? - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Nihilists embrace life's existence by the acceptance of nothingness - Martijn Budel
She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence. - Upton Sinclair
The greatest service, you can do, to the existence, is serving yourself. If you serve yourself and take care of, yourself, anything that comes out of you, will add meaning and beauty to life. - Roshan Sharma
Our very existence refuses your laws andyour science, your religions and yourphilosophies. - B.E. Scully
For those who were born lovers, falling in love is neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence. - Sameh Elsayed
My existence is just an unfamiliar name and nothing else. - Tanmaya Guru
The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate". - John Green
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. Material things I know, or fell, or see; All else is immaterial to me. Jamrach Holobom - Ambrose Bierce
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. - Lord Byron
Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - Vladimir Nabokov
Contentment is the spirit of joyful existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I look myself in the mirror and see what I am inside. In a glimpse, I find the perfection in the imperfect evidence of the former existence. - Katia M. S.
Here, fire turns into water;Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun.There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction;Everything supports everything else. - Osho
Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and slogans, but its actual view of man and of existence. - Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto
Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated. - Malak El Halabi
Questions... I question that... and than... soona I am going to question and my existence. - Deyth Banger
Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence. - Gerald M. Givens
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence. - Paul Copan
We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are. - Judith Butler
Find your truth and make your existence real as you choose it. Your creation is your own greatest gift. (Neings of Light via Joules) - Jay Woodman
The essence of existence is experience. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. - Werner Von Braun
Through the "Strength" of one and his simple existence, there will be a transformation affecting many because of just one life. - J.D. Stark
If circumstances are always the rulers, the shallow existence of instant gratification will keep us as mere spectators of our lives. Get up! Clarify! Get in the game and live! - Claudia Simon
Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition. - Sovereign Voice
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Give a reason for your existence and make a life out of it. - Nikki Rowe
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards - Andrei Tarkovsky
When our brains declare war on our very existence. - Jenny Lawson
This is the responsibility we all owe to ourselves– that the purpose of our existence be to positively affect others with our gift and this does not begin when we feel we have become something. It begins when we decide to pick our gift and align it with it’s purpose. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Human existence is partnered with spiritual laws; it’s the foundation of the human experienceWe all ultimately want a pain free existence, unfortunately circumstances of unrest bring to light the spiritual laws designed to play themselves out in the everyday experiences of the human race. - Brian Edward Arsenault
There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence...it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence. - Kim Chestney
A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror! - Mehmet Murat ildan
In the course of our journey leading to Consciousness, our objective should not be creating a positive character, and thus a pleasant scenario, but finding the Existence behind every scenario. - Frank Wanderer
It is the nature of my dreams that determine the fabric of my existence - rjs - rassool jibraeel snyman
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence. - George Holyoake
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being. - Carl Jung
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence. - Salman Rushdie
People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Do not forget the joy of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. - Aristotle
Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence? - Vironika Tugaleva
Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
The purpose of this glorious life is not simply to endure it, but to soar, stumble, and flourish as you learn to fall in love with existence. We were born to live, my dear, not to merely exist. - Becca Lee
In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life. (Beyond Religion, p. 81) - David N. Elkins
Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself. Self can be realized; not by knowledge but by revelation. - Gian Kumar
The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories. - Abhijit Naskar
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. - George Santayana
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. - Richard Dawkins
...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet. Linus Pauling - Paul Dirac
A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist’s task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore, and engage based on the artist’s version of the truth, even if that truth is artifice. - Kate Kearns
A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says "yes" to the whole existence. - Swami Dhyan Giten
"But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving! - Abd-Ru-Shin
Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions. - Debasish Mridha
When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human. - Rob Bell
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,'Tis woman's whole existence. - George Gordon Byron
When your job is what defines you, when that is the be-all and end-all of your existence, what does a fake smile and a sallow look matter. You have to save your job to keep body and soul together, don't you? - Andy Paula
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. - N. Scott Momaday
HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem. - Ambrose Bierce
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. - Kahlil Gibran
Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world. - Stephenie Meyer
I searched for a deeper existence. What I found was myself. The next moment the journey towards self discovery began all over again. - Matthew Donnelly
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence. - Larken Rose
God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness. - Nikolai A. Berdyaev
As a Christian, our existence here on earth is but a sliver of the eternal pie. Our focus should be one the whole pie, and not the sliver. - Danny L. Deaubé
Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence. - Alija Izetbegović
All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing. - Pietros Maneos
Faith is the strength of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It only takes a tenth grade course on evolution to know that the prostate g-spot’s existence alone is proof that ass play has been done for a very, very long time. - Maggie Young
if you speak things into existence, they will become real.. believe me! - Rakesh Vemulawada
Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. - Gustave Flaubert
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. - Terence McKenna
Are decisions really products of analysis of a situation; or are simply out of preconceived notions? I believe, at some point of one's existence, we all are troubled by relativism! - L.D.R.
Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth’s existence. - Harold Camping
He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence. - Paulo Coelho
Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons! - Mehmet Murat ildan
To all the true lovers: Your unconditional love is the reason why flowers bloom.To all the beloveds: You are the reason why universe came into existence. - Saurabh Sharma
Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In the interests of an important and fascinating experiment, it can even become meritorious. Here is the starting point of a new apologia for sadism. - Bruno Schulz
We must realise that cognitive hygiene is as important subject as oral hygiene for healthy and happy existence. - Aditya Ajmera
For those who were born lovers, falling in love is not neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence. - Sameh Elsayed
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it. - Morgan Freeman
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. - Quentin Crisp
The grace of existence is the power of giving. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You must know, the day your star exploded into my universe, you altered it all. You exposed my light and my dark, settled into my existence and there you will be and glow in the matter of my heart, long after light is only a memory. You have changed things for always. - Jennifer DeLucy
Happiness is the silent purpose of all existence. - Debasish Mridha
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? - Milan Kundera
Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. - Lewis Thomas
Absurd laughter is a kind of protest against an absurd existence. - Meng Wang
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence. - Jamsetji Tata
We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Love makes you feel at home in existence. - Swami Dhyan Giten
Your existence depends on what you have, not what you are. - Vinita Kinra
Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible! - Mehmet Murat ildan
We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation. - Alaric Hutchinson
The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity. - Eraldo Banovac
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. - C.G. Jung
God is also need money to sustain his existence on this earth. - Tanmaya Guru
The only way to know the answer is by asking questions. Religion tries to suppress the questions asking (curiosity) because it can threaten its own existence. The truth is out there, go ask for it! - Saurabh Gupta Earth5R
Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer. - Shah Asad Rizvi
Life is gift. Accepts the sacred existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. - Sholem Asch
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.
No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. - Jacques Lacan
It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me. - Warsan Shire
The day you find out the purpose of your existence, is the day you get to know the value of your being. - Mehek Bassi
Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Anxiety, in short, is a conscious feeling. It can arise in a bottom-up way, driven by activity in defensive circuits or from higher processes that conceptualize worry, either about an uncertain future or about existence itself. - Joseph E. Ledoux
Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence. - Ken Poirot
Intuition is to develop a trust in yourself, and to the silent whisperings of your heart. If you trust yourself, you can trust others, you can trust existence. - Swami Dhyan Giten
It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence. - Kedar Joshi
Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else? - Neil Peart
Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity - Tony Samara
EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem: From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" - Ambrose Bierce
Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions! - Mehmet Murat ildan
As a Christian, our existence here on earth is a sliver of the eternal pie. Our focus should be on the whole pie, and not the sliver. - Danny L. Deaubé
There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence. - Jalaluddin Rumi
The only thing sillier than believing in gods is arguing against their existence. - Marty Rubin
The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism. - Edward R. Murrow
People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed. - Toba Beta
Compassion is the chief law of human existence. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence. - Herbert Marcuse
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts. - Ricky Gervais
Confident hope is the faith of existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility. - Dejan Stojanovic
A philosopher is a deep thinker and a meticulous observer of nature and events that reveal the beauty, truth, and meaning of existence. - Debasish Mridha
Question with boldness even the existence of aGod; because, if there be one, he must more approve ofthe homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. - Thomas Jefferson