Quotes About Existence

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.

Life's objective is life itself.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

God seems to have the receiver off the hook.

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.

The glory of God is in man fully alive.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

God, to be God, must transcend what is. He must be the maker of what ought to be.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

To think you are separate from God is to remain separate from your own being.

The house appointed for all living.

Is but the threshold of eternity.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot," to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, or live too long.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

When the heart of your heart opens, you can take deep pleasure in the company of the people around you . . . When you are open to the beauty, mystery, and grandeur of ordinary existence, you "get it" that it always has been beautiful, mysterious, and grand and always will be.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.