Best feelings & existence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Ifs Feels Years God Feelings Humanity Existence Share Ocean Hundred Dignity Eternity Cease Chains Barriers Egotism Momentary

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“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

“My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.”

World Soul Self Whole Feelings Fall My Own Existence Cases Elements Circles Whole World Sensations Surround Peculiar Spheres My Thoughts Opaque

Author:F. H. Bradley

“Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.”

May Feelings Light Easy Existence Fine Offended Wickedness Hints

Book:Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)

Source: Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)

“The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.”

Men Writing Country Whole Feelings Order Literature Existence Generations Tradition Historical Bones Simultaneous Individual Talent

Book:The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

“When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.”

Feels Trying Feelings Existence Gratitude Grateful Flames Candle Visualization Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.”

Feels Humans Real Feelings Existence Tests Boundaries Obligation Contributing Validity Consolidation

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.”

Thinking Firsts Feelings Lost Wish Religious Existence Clear Youth Chains Paradise Primitive Thinking God

Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.”

Source: Lodore

“Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.”

Ifs World Inspirational Giving Children Moments Feelings Used Night Existence Magic Childhood Creation Adults Miracle Rose Astonishing Magic Of Childhood

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered, like a reminiscence of some previous state of existence. It is at once familiar and strange.”

Stills States Feelings Dream Existence Half Strange Forgotten London Familiar Curious Remembered Dreams Come True

Book:Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship

Source: Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship

“Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.”

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Author:Leonid Andreyev

“The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.”

Feelings Reality Existence Vision Strange Sweet Illusion Skins Bones Substance Metaphysics

Book:Max Beckmann

Source: Max Beckmann

“A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.”

Humans May Character Feelings Earth Found Existence Human Nature Judgment Errors Surface Sentiments Metals Concealed Sandy Precious Metal

Book:Essays and aphorisms

Source: Essays and aphorisms

“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly.”

Giving Trying Believe Feelings Space Existence Eating Weight Ghost Being Yourself Apologizing Homeless Belly Never Quit Erase

Author:Geneen Roth

“For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves. All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.”

“There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.”

Feelings Existence Awareness Essence Ancient Who We Are Mysticism Traveler Resonance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.”

Feelings Humor Form Existence Essence Fellows Warm Sensibility Fellow Feeling

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.”

Ifs Feelings Sound Water Religious Effort Existence Fire Melody Sparks

Book:Only One Year

Source: Only One Year

“Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.”

Source: A Fairly Honourable Defeat

“Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.”

Ifs Believe Doe Book Feelings Reading Existence Thee Generous

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.”

Feelings Joy Passion Energy Growth Existence Prosperity Concentration Unhappiness Intensity Fullness Pulse Flowering

Author:Nina Berberova

“It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's previous existence, that there existed something like a soul-mate. The feeling of not being understood is heightened in marriage by the fact that one's entire life beforehand had the aim of finding a being who would understand one. But isn't it better to exist without such an illusion and look this great lonely truth straight in the eye?”

Looks Doe Has Beens Soul Facts Feelings Eye Existence Findings Illusion Understood Lonely Essence Aim Mates Soul Mate

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!”

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