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Quotes About Existence

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
~ Sigmund Freud
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
~ Max Ehrmann
When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
~ Jack Kerouac
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
~ Dion Boucicault
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
~ Jack Kerouac
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
~ Alex Grey
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
~ Angela Davis
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Reality is where your consciousness is located
~ Nevill Drury
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.
~ Cat Stevens
Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.
~ Swami Muktananda
Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
~ Victor Hugo
We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.
~ John G. Lake
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
~ Plato
It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
~ Henri Bergson
Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.
~ Hafez