Balanced life Quote by Cassandra Blizzard

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

— Douglas Coupland

Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at…

— Martin Heidegger

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these…

— Charlie Chaplin

I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How…

— Chris Bauer

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect…

— Thomas Merton

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of…

— Teresa of Avila

Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human?…

— Anonymous

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem…

— John Steinbeck

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

— Ernest Becker

“Why”: Where do you even start to answer that simple one-word quandary? As huge as our souls are purported to be, what fills us…

— Corey Taylor

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter…

— Gregory Maguire

Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human…

— Daniel Horan