Merely Existing Quotes

• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Peace, Military

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

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• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Journey, Reality

  "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity'". Life magazine, p. 64, May 02, 1955.

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• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Inspirational Life, Creating

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• A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing

  Leo Buscaglia

  Gratitude, Passion

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• When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Truly Living

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• All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As bodies which possess some power produce their effects by merely existing: e.g. the sun gives light and heat by merely existing; so, and far more so, the providence of the Gods acts without effort to itself and for the good of the objects of its forethought. This solves the problems of the Epicureans , who argue that what is divine neither has trouble itself nor gives trouble to others.

  Sallust

  Taken, Believe, Light

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• Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

  Gregory Maguire

  Prayer, Forever, Use

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.28, Harper Collins

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