Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence. — Jack London Copy Share Image
It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence. — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The Western media is a Ministry of Truth that operates full-time in support of the artificial existence that Westerners live inside The… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others. Then there are those who seem… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of… — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
“Nowists are more likely to experience joy because they embrace the uncertainty of existence. They are switched on by the uncertain stuff… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...properly a theory about knowledge, not about religion. A theist and a Christian may be an agnostic; an atheist may not be… — Robert Flint Copy Share Image
The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing… — William James Copy Share Image
“Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It strikes her that, until these last weeks, she has lived in an impossibly small universe, willfully blinded to the vastness of… — Matthew Flaming Copy Share Image
“6-30. “I will now tell you the truth of the objective world, as it is. What is seen is absolutely nothing but… — Sri Ramanananda Copy Share Image
For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image