Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“free fall to your quite smile to capture you and you propel me to death, all that we write destroys then heals” — Gwen Calvo Copy Share Image
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“I think love is the wild card of existence. Don’t rule it out. Old as we are, it may still get thrown… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have… — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
I can’t say that there are “things” that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
“I've found many truths in my social experiences. I thought being alive and being human was all the qualification you need to… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the electromagnetic spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“It is only when the question ceases to be identified with the subject-verb-predicate structure of grammar, and is recognized within its original… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“It seems to us that there is only one answer to this question: we must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that everyone, whatever… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“According to the anthropic principle proponents, if the universal constants (e.g. gravitation, the strong force, etc.) were just a nose-hair off, the… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996. — El-P Copy Share Image
“...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Run the race as if everything in existence depends upon it, because everything in your existence does.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler… — John Green Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the 'I'-thought rises — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development. — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
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