Life Existence Quotes

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. ~ Rajneesh

You are ... Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. -Bella ~ Stephenie Meyer

Mind is obsessed with fleeting illusions, while Spirit is constant and free. ~ Reza Mohamed

One can enjoy existence, not life. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence. ~ Alastair Campbell

The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is not possible to disprove an ultimate purpose, there does not seem to be any evidence for it. This is not to say, of course, that there is no purpose in life at all: we all make our own purposes as we go through life. And life does not lose its value simply because it it not going to last forever. ~ Barbara Smoker

There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found. ~ Bede Griffiths

And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life. ~ Anton Chekhov

As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart. ~ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

All that exists is the present moment ~ Alaric Hutchinson

The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression. ~ Sigmund Freud

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod. ~ Gustave Flaubert

Married life is an existence with bars around it. ~ Al Goldstein

It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now. ~ Prince Philip

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life? ~ Mo Yan

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him. ~ Norman Cousins

Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life. ~ Zach Galifianakis

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily. ~ Jon Krakauer

When you make yourself a better you, you inevitably make a better life for your family. That's the thing I'll always embrace and you should too. Better yourself. Enjoy your life. ~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall the life never be sweet? ~ Margaret Fuller

In breaking news, the sky. The earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plain with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance. ~ Joseph Fink

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives. ~ Mortimer Adler

Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life. ~ Osho

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. ~ Auguste Comte

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on ... ~ Nicole Richie

I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon. ~ Florence King

There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that flow quietly and effortlessly until time forsakes them, but there are others that fight until they find their way to the edge of reality, as if coming straight out of a dream. ~ Edwin Fontanez

I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers (Aristotle, in his "Physicae Auscultationes" (lib.2, cap.8, s.2), after remarking that rain does not fall in order to make the corn grow, any more than it falls to spoil the farmer's corn when threshed out of doors, applies the same argument to organisation; and adds (as translated by Mr. Clair Grece, who first pointed out the passage to me), "So what hinders the different parts (of the body) from having this merely accidental relation in nature? as the teeth, for example, grow by necessity, the front ones sharp, adapted for dividing, and the grinders flat, and serviceable for masticating the food; since they were not made for the sake of this, but it was the result of accident. And in like manner as to other parts in which there appears to exist an adaptation to an end. Wheresoever, therefore, all things together (that is all the parts of one whole) happened like as if they were made for the sake of something, these were preserved, having been appropriately constit ~ Charles Darwin

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. ~ Gregory Peck

When someone in vulnerability tells you everything they've known has fallen apart, the correct response is not to quote scripture, the correct response is not biblical apologetics, the correct response is a hug. The correct response is to say, I love you. They have to encounter an impossible love. It's the only way the gospel comes to life. ~ Mike McHargue

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult. ~ Sylvester Stallone

Checkmate" doesn't mean you've simply cornered the enemy king.It's a declaration that the enemy king is yours. ~ Yū Kamiya

In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics, and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children the right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." Adams saw clearly that politics is the indispensable foundation for things elegant and beautiful. First and above all else, you must secure life, liberty and the right to pursue your own happiness. ~ Charles Krauthamer John Adams

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me! ~ David Lee Roth

A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting. ~ Lemony Snicket

The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level. ~ Victor Garber

But if you hear the call to make your life about more than you and what you can contribute, you will have peace, not anxiety, when facing mortality. ~ Jeff Goins

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. ~ George Halas

Doing what you love is a sacred life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater - because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line. ~ Peter O'Toole

You won't ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have a lot of potential but your life won't change until you change how you think. ~ Michele Woolley

People are often asking me if the things in my short stories really happened to me. I always think this is the same question to ask of a life - did this really happen to me? The body doesn't lie. But when we bring language to the body, isn't it always already an act of fiction? With its delightfully designed composition and color saturations and graphic patterns? Its style and vantage point? Its insistence on the mind's powerful force of recollection in the face of the raw and brutal fact that the only witness was the body? ~ Lidia Yuknavitch

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, I'm sorry to say you're going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life. ~ Ali B. Moe

The loud ring of my car phone disrupted my introspection. Startled, I picked up the phone, certain it would be J calling from the airport after, probably, persistently calling all night. Another phone confrontation. But at least this time I'd be ready. I'd just had a four-hour dose of Marlboro Man. I could handle anything.
"Hello?" I said, readying myself.
"Hey, you," the voice said. The voice. That voice. The one that had infiltrated my dreams.
It was Marlboro Man, calling to say he missed me, a mere five minutes after I'd pulled away from his house. And his words weren't scripted or canned, like the obligatory roses sent after a date. They were impulsive, spur-of-the-moment--the words of a man who'd had a thought and acted on it within seconds. A man who, in his busy life on the ranch, had neither the time nor the inclination to wait to call a girl or play it cool. A man who liked a woman and called her just as she left his house, simply to tell her he wished she hadn't. ~ Ree Drummond

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. And when a life ends as mine will end, no one can persuade me that the cost was not worth what it has brought me at last. ~ Orson Scott Card

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect. ~ Andrew Sullivan

You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn't matter. What matters is this: Thank to it! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is great.
Life is amazing.
Observe the beauty in everything you do. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My goal is to build a life I don't need a vacation from. ~ Rob Hill Sr.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life. ~ Michelangelo

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. ~ Jorge Luis Borges