“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can… — Mia Kirshner Copy Share Image
I genuinely think that you always have to have the mindset, that you have a point to prove. Until the last day… — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
“A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says "yes" to the whole existence.” — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“So be optimistic whatever your perception of the universe happens to be. You wouldn’t look at an ocean and deny the existence… — Pol Bard Copy Share Image
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
If you expect anything out of love, or meditation, you will get only frustration, and negative emptiness will happen. If you love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which… — Paul Foster Case Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.” — François Petit Copy Share Image
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence. — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our… — Christopher Locke Copy Share Image
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
“Everything is exciting, particularly existence. Existence is the most thrilling fact of all.” — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense. — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image