Our Existence Quotes
237 Our Existence quotes by 197 unique authors
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
— Gary Hamel
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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
— Louise Erdrich
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We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism…
— Os Guinness
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There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighbouring state that…
— Reuven Rivlin
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What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?
— John Macmurray
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We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the…
— Duane Elgin
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded…
— Nikola Tesla
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We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.
— Shekhar Kapur
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If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.
— Beth Moore
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This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal…
— David Brooks
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We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
— Leon Kass
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When parents say, ‘I wish my child did not have autism,’ what they’re really saying is, ‘I wish the autistic child I have did not…
— Jim Sinclair
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I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to…
— Dalai Lama
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Relationships are the core of our existence because they are the core of God's and we are in His image.
— Terryl L. Givens
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At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does…
— Dalai Lama
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Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is…
— Dalai Lama
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We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it…
— Lewis Thomas
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We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space…
— Margot Wallstrom
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To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness…
— Taitetsu Unno
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Labor is the divine law of our existence.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.
— Eric Metaxas
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential…
— Ansel Adams
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
— Audre Lorde
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