Quotes About Existence

There's certainly no unchanging self that is carried through from one moment to the next. Its a processes; it's not a thing. You're a verb more than you're a noun (from the point of view of neuroscience).

the 2.5 billion seconds that make up the average human

Life is not a noun, it's a verb.

How many hours of human labor will be devoured today, by an imaginary God?

Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

Worrying about something you can't control has less benefit than a mosquito's existence.

Let the Gods create the days, and just live through them.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.