Existence Quotes

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it.... Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac represents the twelve lessons of human existence, the 12 qualities to be developed in the formation of the perfect man (and woman).

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.