Browsing Topic Best Existence Quotes

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction, or limitation.

There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

The great object of life is sensation – to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

To read the statements from President [Joe] Biden, Secretary [of State Antony] Blinken, General [Lloyd] Austin and leaders of both parties, you would hardly know Palestinians existed at all.

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.

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

Serenity comes from the ability to say Yes to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say No to the wrong choices made by others.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.