Best achievement & existence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.”

Running Desire Individual Wish Existence Quality Achievement Glory Vanity Merit Appreciated Whim Frivolous Personal Qualities

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium, roused to do our best, by every good writer, every fine achievement. Would we want one good writer or fine book less? The sense of writers being pitted against each other is bred primarily by the workings of the commercial marketplace, and by critics lauding one writer at the expense of another while ignoring the existence of nearly all.”

Want Book Literature Existence Fine Achievement Critics Very Good Hunger Affection Rings Mediums Generosity Expenses Marketplace Good Writers

Book:Silences

Source: Silences

“We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.”

Needs Existence Achievement Release Excitement Boredom Shops Unruly

Book:Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

Source: Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

Source: Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.”

Ifs Form Desire Values Existence Expression Achievement Highest Driven Our Love Motor

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.”

Ifs Men World Choices Existence Vision Power Achieve Building Achievement Chaos Every Man Denial Spheres Irrational Worldview Grind Escaping Irrationality Power Of Choice Imaging Abdication

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, "That's good.”

Looks Self Would Be Joy Existence Imagine Taught Poet Achievement Mirrors Celebrate Delicious Taught Us Obscene Walt

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.”

Ifs Way Humans Kind Mean Book Universe Courses Enjoy Ability Existence Talent Lessons Lucky Achievement Appreciate Privilege Multitudes Living Things

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.”

Mean Ends Existence Achievement Method Substance

Book:The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.”

Ifs Needs Moments Difficult Existence Consciousness Our Lives Achievement Hope To Live

Book:The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.”

“The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in a let-go. Or in other words, the whole art consists of one word, "surrender". And that's what sannyas is, that's my definition of a sannyasin: a man who is surrendered to existence so totally that he never thinks in terms of achievement any more, because he is no more. Who is there to achieve? - he has disappeared totally, he has not left even a trace behind. In that very moment, when you are just a pure nothingness, truth arrives. It is a gift of God.”

Thinking Men Art Whole Moments Left Term Behinds Existence Achieve Pure Letting Go Achievement Definitions Possession Surrender Vulnerable Allowing Nothingness One Word Gift From God

Author:Rajneesh

“The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.”

World Reality Inspiration Seems Faith Lost Existence Modern Achievement Ultimate Christian Inspirational Marvelous Modern World Ultimate Reality

Book:The Encyclicals of John Paul II

Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II

“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.”

Social Results Powerful Existence Class Achievement Evidence Claims Invisible Insane Attributes Modest Bureaucracy Employed Social Life Infallible

Book:The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.”

Source: The World of Mathematics

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