Best Existence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.”

Ideas Courses Existence Backwards Trajectory

Author:Thom Mayne

“How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.”

Humans Art Self Evil Answers Existence Art Is Claims Bounds Backgrounds Secular Human Existence

Author:Yann Martel

“Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.”

Kind Ideas Reason Fall Found Belief Existence Quality Conscious Immortality Associates Quality Of Life Falling Off Continuance

Author:Albert J. Nock

“I don't think people understand - atheists are really a disenfranchised minority in this country. There are six constitutions right now - state constitutions - that say things like what South Carolina says that, "No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution."”

Persons Existence Office Constitution Deny Supreme Supreme Being

Author:Michael Newdow

“Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.”

Ifs Needs Dream Able Humanity Existence Misery Instant

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

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Author:Jim Fowler

“Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.”

Littles Two Enjoy Existence Dog New York Walking Yards

Author:Jim Parsons

“Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.”

Existence Creative Theory Evolution Theory Of Evolution

Author:Michael Polanyi

“When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.”

People Whole Running Kids Moving Existence Towns Down And Whole Life Lifestyle Shopping Centre Carnivals Nomadic

Author:Randy Quaid

“I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.”

Thinking Kind Form Sides Existence Particular Doctrine Ideology Good And Bad Darker Side

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?”

Thinking Knows Trying Sound Existence Band Mature

Author:Adam Rich

“There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.”

Giving Long Seems Existence Events Perspective Periods Foundation Rounds Caught Dull Caught Up Glimpse Petty No Point Great Events

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that is to say, I can get out my hostilities - because I'm protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I'm doing is morally right. I've never been so relaxed. I've never been so happy.”

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Author:Benjamin Spock

“We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the oneness of being. Using the process of conscious evolution we begin to recognise our true underlying identity, for once we have glimpsed the existence of this realm, we then begin to reveal what it is . . . . our true natural state.”

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Author:Jim Harrison

“Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.”

Writing Done Existence Novel Written Ass Chairs

Book:Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months

Source: Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months

“It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence aren't incongruous at all, but rather perfect.”

Wisdom Beautiful Realizing Perfect Existence Buddhism Mortals Immortal Incongruity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.”

World Existence This World Buddhism Balance Concepts Characteristics Defining Sorting Defining Ourselves

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trust that life is guiding you and showing you every step that is necessary to learn to be perfect. Have faith in yourself. You'll come through OK. Have faith in existence.”

Life Is Perfect Existence Steps Buddhism Balance Have Faith Every Step Faith In Yourself Have Faith In Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.”

World Existence Wonder Buddhism Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings is something that is eternal.”

World Different Existence This World Buddhism Type Eternal Planes Cycles Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds.”

World Way Existence Buddhism Eternity Endless Planes Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace”

People World Years May Order Sound Existence Buddhism Hundred Years Ago Filled Dimensions Suspects Peculiar Commonplace Other Worlds Microscopes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Open up to the other dimensional planes so you can penetrate the mysteries of existence and enjoy the wonder of being, the wonder of being you.”

World Enjoy Existence Wonder Mystery Buddhism Planes Penetrate Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Existence is the awareness of awareness.”

Existence Awareness Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.”

Science Existence Awareness Fields Buddhism Perception Patterns Continuity Molecules

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.”

Existence Awareness Buddhism Perpetual Perpetual Motion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.”

Giving Form Existence Awareness Buddhism Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.”

Reality Order Space Existence Awareness Buddhism Accepted Time And Space Bonding

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.”

Feels Pain Joy Humanity Term Loss Existence Buddhism Guilt Complexes Remorse Filing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.”

Humans Running Humanity Human Beings Existence Buddhism Understood Encounters Running Away Rationalize

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.”

Ideas Dream Humanity Sleep Existence Stage Buddhism No Idea Humankind Awakened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.”

Should Feelings Happiness Natural Existence Buddhism Ecstasy Unusual

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.”

Way Self Happiness Love Is Existence Buddhism Self Realization Realization Liberation Knots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of so many things I've seen in other planes and in other worlds.”

World Nature Existence Buddhism Eternity Patterns Endless Planes Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.”

Knows Doe Moving Existence Pieces Buddhism Moved Sexuality Chess Boards Squares New Directions Chess Pieces

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.”

Writing Voice Existence Lonely Sticks Depressing What You Love

Author:Chris Terrio

“Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.”

Looks Persons Doe Existence Gay Mercy Rejects Homosexuality Accompany Approved

Author:Pope Francis

“Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.”

Humans Kind Views Existence Study Aspect Anthropology Human Existence Holistic Dichotomy Aspects Of Life Holistic Approach

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.”

“The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.”

Inspirational Life Is Results Existence Awareness Buddhism Finals

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.”

Inspirational Form Life Is Existence Buddhism Pure Enlightenment Endless

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.”

Inspirational Energy Existence Consciousness Buddhism Flow Planes Sandwiches

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your evolution.”

Inspirational Wells Process Existence Buddhism Development Evolution Rapids Dip Escalating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.”

Inspirational Existence Buddhism Enlightenment Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.”

World Inspirational Existence Forever Buddhism Metaphor Changing The World Perpetual Rebirth Oblivion Never Change Fluid

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.”

Inspirational Has Beens Existence Known Conditions Awareness Buddhism One Day Sight Infinite Train Stations Perpetual Timeless Arrivals

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.”

Light Existence Meditation Buddhism Letting Go Allowing Merging

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.”

Dies Existence Meditation Buddhism Life And Death Reborn

Author:Frederick Lenz

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