Quotes About Existence

Each thing is created for a purpose. The moment the purpose is achieved, it will perish. This

It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.

Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

Always is no Time at all.

Everybody's got soul. It's a matter of what condition it's in.

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

O?iju tvojih da nije, Ne bi bilo neba U malom našem stanu

Life, dreams, thoughts. Formless and endless. A billion years before our birth. A billion years after it. And in the middle, for a single moment, to see only one person, feeling everything else covered in a white light.

The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.

What is it to inhabit a world? How does one make the world one's own? What is it to lose one's world?

Oftentimes, the First Noble Truth is misquoted as "All life is suffering," but that is an inaccurate and misleading reflection of the Buddha's insight. He did not teach that life is constant misery, nor that you should expect to feel pain and unhappiness at all times. Rather, he proclaimed that suffering is an unavoidable reality of ordinary human existence that is to be known and responded to wisely.

I learnt, in those first few days, how numerous and devastating were the errors that it was possible to commit in carrying out the most ordinary functions of everyday life. To me, for whom meals had hitherto appeared as though by clockwork and the routine of a house had seemed to be worked by some invisible mechanism, the complications of sheer existence were nothing short of a revelation.

In the absence of Death, In the presence of Death, Only one thing remains, It is Love.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

For where there is heaven, there can also be hell.

The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before