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“I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of mine. It's a true love. Dancing, I kind of just fell into. Choreographing, the same thing. But making films, producing and directing, that's the heartbeat of my existence.”

Heart Kind I Can Film Passion Acting Existence Fronts Figures Mines Dancing I've Learned Angle Heartbeat

Author:Columbus Short

“The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.”

“Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.”

People Years Passion Existence Virtue Band Through The Years

Author:Andy Biersack

“I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.”

Humans Art Character Body Able Desire Existence Art Is Concerned Essence Sexuality Naked Human Life Vulnerability Human Body Human Existence Intrigued Basics

Author:Thomas Koerfer

“I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.”

Want Existence Rocks Band Divorce Managers Biographies Rock Bands Bad Business

Author:Dave Grohl

“When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities.”

Two Reality Suffering Loss Existence

Author:Sophia Bush

“The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is.”

Different Feelings Earth Views Existence Seeing Planets Perspective Appreciate Fragile Looking Back Spectacular Different Perspective

Author:Sally Ride

“But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in every phase of human life. This lies mainly in recognition that the micro phase, the particular or national traditions, must find their context and fulfillment in the macro phase, the global or panhuman phase of human existence.”

Ifs World Humans Lying Peace Existence Particular Needed Tradition Peaceful Recognition Human Life Fulfillment Phases Human Existence Peaceful World Macro

Book:Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community

Source: Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community

“Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at the deepest level in heaven. Because they keenly feel that nothing now quite meets the standards of their longing souls, the quiet but deeply throbbing ache within them drives them not to compalint, but to anticipation and further yieldedness.”

People Knows Feels Soul Hard Joy Suffering Heaven Pleasure Levels Existence Quiet Standards Longing Endure Meaningful Anticipation Unlimited Godly Destined Ache Hard Things

Author:Larry Crabb

“Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.”

Mean States Language Existence English Language Englishmen

Book:Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

“Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.”

Said God Government Law Universe Existence Moral Eternal

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.”

Reason God Existence Existence Of God

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.”

God Existence Temples Rejects

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.”

Men Life Whole Force Existence Life And Death Life Death

Book:The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.”

Life Existence Glasses Bangles

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.”

Men Existence Struggle Mankind Triumph Mutual Struggle For Existence

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.”

Spirit Nations Existence Materials Development Aids Nationalism Flags

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.”

Mean Moments Winning Existence Dedicated Nonviolence

Book:Communal Unity

Source: Communal Unity

“He is never born, never dies, without beginning or end, eternal and infinite. Through all times, past, present and future, He remains the same. The origin and dissolution of the Universe is all within him. Nothing exists without his existence. He is everything.”

Ends God Past Dies Universe Born Existence Eternal Infinite Remains All Time Dissolution Past Present Past Present And Future Times Past

Author:Rama Swami

“God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One - One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him.”

Ifs Has Beens Two God Existence Absolutes Finals Manifestation

Author:Rama Swami

“There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."”

Men Art Made Soul God Young Universe Existence Youth He Man Pride Walking Sticks Thee Young Man Old Man

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.”

Wells Soul God Joy Lying Existence Son Highest Finals Supreme My Son Realisation

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“All existence is a manifestation of God.”

God Existence Manifestation

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.”

Truth Existence Truth Is Devotion Sole Justification

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.”

World Moments Existence Permanent Unreal

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?”

Law Names Existence Civilization Legislation Doubtful Props

Book:The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

“She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.”

Humans Animal Common Existence Known Fishes Seeking Boundaries Rejoice Laboratory Tanks Kinship

Book:The Dispossessed

Source: The Dispossessed

“Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly defeating, on your way. That's a given. Just wipe out the very notion of stress. Concentrate on your actors. Obsess about your story and the world it is anchored in. Deal with the hundreds of down-to-earth issues [around] the existence of your film. At some point, everything will be ripe. And you wouldn't be able to stop your film from coming to life even if you wanted to.”

Ifs World Way Giving Stories Would Be Able Wanted Earth Film Actors Given Deals Existence Issues Advice Directors Female Difficulty Stress Males Notion Endless Wipe Ripe Down To Earth

Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven

“Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty.”

Men Philosophy Existence Consciousness Identity Faculty Liberated Cognition Cognitive

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.”

“That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.”

Feels Stories Joy Existence Greater Appreciation Working It Good Story How You Feel

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.”

Men Needs Humans Able Existence Sick Fundamentals Human Existence

Author:Desmond Tutu

“It is important to not be hostile to what a greater part of society has embraced, whether as Christians, Hindus or Muslims. It is important to respect that because whether you believe or not in the existence of a superior being, humanity does believe in that.”

Believe Doe Important Christian Humanity Existence Greater Superiors Being Human Hostile

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.”

Kind Loss Existence Painful Holes Fabric

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.”

Needs Feelings Existence Huge Amount Shame Connected Accepted Being Loved Love And Family

Author:Anne Sewitsky

“I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.”

Ifs Thinking Existence Capacity Claims Likes Powerless

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that the Catholic Church, which is never at a loss for an answer when it comes to existential questions, responds as follows: This question simply does not arise.”

Doe School Church Religious Loss Answers Existence Prove Catholic Arise Instruction I Have Learned Existential Catholic Church Existence Of God

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.”

Thinking World Writing Humans Stories Reality Would Be Social Human Beings Existence Fiction Realistic Surprising Realistic Fiction

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."”

Long Humor Funny Faces Law Walks Existence Aspect Horse Bars Protected Barmen

Author:Bill Bailey

“You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.”

Looks Able Existence Company Building Cost Models Fundamentals Structure Incumbents Business Models

Author:Aaron Levie

“On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.”

World Humans Hands Human Beings Existence Useless Changing The World Poetry Is Being Human Can't Change Human Existence

Author:Bei Dao

“One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good to lighten up our existence. Chase anxiousness/fear away for a moment before it sneaks back in again to our life.”

Should Moments Evil Existence Our Lives Paradox Sneak

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.”

Seems Young Existence Technology Fantasy Reader Captivated

Author:Anita Nair

“I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.”

Writing Form Song Stuff Existence Careers Path Too Much Late Caring Obsession Too Late Journal Bane Career Path

Author:Emily Haines

“I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.”

Thinking Should Humans Self States Nature Human Beings Existence Support Building Architecture Interfere Ecology Ecological Ecosystems Sustaining Stasis

Author:Ken Yeang

“My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.”

“Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.”

Existence Communication Conversation Dough Raisins

Book:The Complete Works Of O. Henry

Source: The Complete Works Of O. Henry

“The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.”

People Giving Reality Artist Can Do Hours Answers Existence Half Satisfying

Author:Woody Allen

“If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody.”

Ifs Way Existence Structure If I Could Better Ways Way To Live

Author:Woody Allen

“The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.”

People World Way Existence Environment Havens Depends Appreciate Around The World Dependent Stability Layers Organisms Richness Living Organisms Biosphere

Author:E. O. Wilson

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