Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence. — Alan Lowenthal Copy Share Image
“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“If stress stopped lactation, the human race would never have evolved because stress has always been an integral part of human existence.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind. — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and the end of human existence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I was really struck by all these people who had committed suicide. There are videos of all of them talking about why… — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
“Living in the land of, "What if…?" leads to emotional paralysis. It sets the stage for doom and gloom thinking. It prevents… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“This is the great dream of which each individual dream is a personal manifestation. Dream is ontogenetic. Myth is phylogenetic. "Dreams and… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“We live in an age of universal inquiry, ergo of universal scepticism. The prophecies of the poet, the dreams of the philosopher… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We do not believe in evil anymore, only evil acts that can be explained away by the science of the mind. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Today my elation over Obama's election is tempered by a far more sobering awareness. As an African American woman, with three young… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, I read an interview with the war correspondent Chris Hedges in which he used a phrase that seemed like… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human… — Foucault, Michel Copy Share Image
“Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“What meaning our lives may seem to have is the work of a relatively well-constituted emotional system. As consciousness gives us the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image