Existence Quotes - Page 9

• From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

  Bellamy Young

  Kindness, Generosity, Helping

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• Never have so many men treated women like our foes. They call 'em hoes, but they might as well call them foes, 'cause you are totally against the existence of somebody who should live their life as an equal human being. If not, any man knows, it's like we're not equal. You know, women are usually a little better than us.

  Chuck D

  Men, Hoe, Ems

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• Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, Circles, People

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• Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Grief, Trying

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.

  Bryan Kest

  Who We Are, Happenings, Strands

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• Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Giving, Joy, Looks

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• If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.

  Nikki Reed

  War, Perception, Generations

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

  George Saunders

  Optimistic, Here I Am, Trying

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Trying, Identity

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others, they could not acquire the rudimentary abilities necessary for physical existence.

  John Dewey

  Immature, Facts, Guidance

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

  John Dewey

  Acting, Way, Environment

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

  Garry Winogrand

  World, Language, Depends

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.

  Vera Nazarian

  Real, Magic, World

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Love is always master everywhere. It shapes the soul, the heart, and the mind wherever it exists. What matters is not the amount of love, but simply its existence in the mind and heart where it resides. And it truly appears that love is to the soul of the lover as the soul itself is to the body which it animates.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Heart, Love Is, What Matters

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• The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

  Katharine Butler Hathaway

  Real, Self, Personality

  Katharine Butler Hathaway (1946). “The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith”

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• Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Life, Humble, Reality

  Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul P. Ricchio (1984). “The Blue Bird ; And, The Betrothal”

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• Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Art, Vision, Wells

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• Justice-seekers everywhere will celebrate Dunbar-Ortiz's unflinching commitment to truth-a truth that places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the United States.

  Waziyatawin

  Commitment, Justice, Colonialism

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• Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story into existence (pen, computer, whatever), and a place in which to do it (office, kitchen table, lunar brothel).

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Office, Kitchen

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• If I deny the existence of a God - if I deny the idea of a gold paved city with pearly walls and jasper gates somewhere out of knowledge and space and prefer to die and to trust the unfaltering laws of nature - if, in plain words I don't want to go to heaven, whose business is it but my own?

  Etta Semple

  Wall, Law, Cities

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• As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Powerful, Military, War

  Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

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• Don't deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life.

  Jesse Duplantis

  Mountain, Authority, Deny

  Jesse Duplantis Ministries (1993). “The Ministry of Cheerfulness: How the Healing Power of Joy Can Change the World Around You”

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• One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Farewell, Men, Sky

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such a conspiracy (to destroy Christianity and obtain global power). The world-wide net-work of diabolical conspirators implements this plot against the Christian faith while Christians appear to be sound asleep. The Christian clergy appear to be more ignorant or more indifferent about this conspiracy than other Christians ... It seems so sad.

  Benjamin H. Freedman

  Christian, Home, Past

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• Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks.....time meandered back and forth between reality and myth.

  Leonard Shlain

  Dream, Reality, Space

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