How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
“Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.” — T.L. Rese Copy Share Image
I realise, of course, that my cluttered existence is deeply unfashionable. — Kate Garraway Copy Share Image
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. — William James Copy Share Image
Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer. — Lori Loughlin Copy Share Image
With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of… — Smiley Blanton Copy Share Image
Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Thought is more important than art…To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Much of our existence is to deal with steep problems and slippery solutions; the rest is the celebration of life!” — Abhijit Kar Gupta Copy Share Image
To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“You don’t know what it’s like to be a man over thirty who’s never had anything happen to him. You spend so… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Yes: I exist inside my body. I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket. I don’t want to conquer… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are mine. You are the light to my darkness… the reason for my continued existence.” — Melissa Haag Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
“That woman thinks you've been waiting your whole life to believe in something, and she's ready to tell you what it should… — Esther Yi Copy Share Image
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it. — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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