Quotes About Existence

Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.

Todos los días Dios nos da un momento en que es posible cambiar todo lo que nos hace infelices. El instante mágico es el momento en que un sí o un no pueden cambiar toda nuestra existencia.

if Evil exists, it's to be found in our fears?

Everything in the universe has life and you must always try to sty in contact with that life. It understands your language and the world will begin to take on a different meaning for you.

It would harm me more to be living a life without meaning. In a war, everyone knows they're experiencing something important.

Don't run, child! You'll never escape the two most important presences in the life of any human being: God and death. God accompanies your every step and will be annoyed because he can see that you're not paying attention to the miracle of life. Or indeed death. You just ran past a corpse and didn't even notice.

Are the latter aware of their limitations, and do they know that life is short and wonder what point there is in going on?

Las personas luchan para salir, no para entrar en coma. Las personas luchan para vivir y no para cometer suicidio... Que es un loco?... La locura es la incapacidad de comunicar las propias ideas...Todos nosotros de una forma u otra, somos locos. Pero la gran locura del hombre y de la mujer es exactamente esta: el amor.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless. She knew she was immortal.

I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused. …

As life has proved, it is true that a woman's body is more important than her mind. She alone can create new human creatures. Were it not for her, the race of man would cease to exist. Into her body, as into a chalice, Heaven has put this gift. Her body therefore is inexpressibly precious to man. He is not fulfilled if she does not create. His is the seed, but she alone can bring it to flower and fruit in another being like himself.

It seemed so strange, so endless, this turning of some hidden wheel, this passing on of link caught onto link in some never ending chain that she was dazed with thinking of it even dimly, since she was not one to think into the meanings of what passed before her, but only taking all that came for what it was.

One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there's nothing more sacred. There's nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there's nothing more!

We awaken this bodhichitta, this tenderness for life, when we can no longer shield ourselves from the vulnerability of our condition, from the basic fragility of existence. In the words of the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, "You take it all in. You let the pain of the world touch your heart and you turn it into compassion." It is said that in difficult times, it is only bodhichitta that heals.

THE BUDDHA TAUGHT that there are three principal characteristics of human existence: impermanence, egolessness, and suffering or dissatisfaction. According to the Buddha, the lives of all beings are marked by these three qualities. Recognizing these qualities to be real and true in our own experience helps us to relax with things as they are. When

The rain in the morning isn't good or bad, comforting or threatening. It's not even "rain." It's just what it is.

we don't have to obscure the joy and openness that is present in every moment of our existence.

Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.