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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. -- Aristotle
It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things. -- Ellar Coltrane
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything. -- Rachel Cusk
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image. -- Bill Laswell
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things. -- William Ames
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. -- Quentin Crisp
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. -- Alexander Hamilton
Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things. -- Djimon Hounsou
Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties. -- Peter Camejo
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific. -- Douglas Kennedy
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. -- Herman Hesse
Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. -- Morris West
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle. -- Harvey Keitel
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs. -- Goldwin Smith
I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's not a matter of using it to explain things that scientists are mystified by. -- Martin Rees
The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay. -- Josh Hamilton
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent. -- Said Nursi
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. -- George Berkeley
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. -- Peter Davison
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. -- Todd Rundgren
All things proclaim the existence of God. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I believe you can speak things into existence. -- Jay-Z
The existence of things does not depend on the existence of words. -- Marty Rubin
Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence. -- Mary Astor
One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence. -- Markus Zusak
Accept things that will make you happy. This is the joy of sacred existence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture. -- Kenneth Langone
He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence. -- Paulo Coelho
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. -- Swami Vivekananda
Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass. -- Rajneesh
It's nice not to have to worry about applying for things. It's really a different existence. -- John Brandon
Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence. -- Frederick Lenz
Your ability to think is unlimited, and so the things you can think into existence are unlimited. -- Rhonda Byrne
Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect. -- John Piper
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world -- Aristotle
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. -- Man Ray
We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen. -- Joyce Meyer
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending. -- Rush Limbaugh
Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending. -- Rush Limbaugh
One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist. -- Michael Barnett
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt. -- Charles Fort
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction. -- Anaximander
Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy. -- Ilchi Lee
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. -- Richard Dawkins
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. -- Henri Bergson
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence. -- Tanith Lee
The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence. -- Frederick Lenz
The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence. -- Frederick Lenz
There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence. -- Lance Conrad
Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence. -- Oswald Chambers
The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence. -- Jaggi Vasudev
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence. -- Jeff Greene
Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. -- Marcus Aurelius
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Bill Clinton did everything in opposition to Black Lives Matter and the things that animate the existence of the Democrat Party today. -- Rush Limbaugh
You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet. -- Leigh Newman
Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence. -- William Barrett
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men. -- Henry Ward Beecher
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike. -- Francis Bacon
Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life. -- Charles Templeton
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. -- Richard Dawkins
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence. -- Man Ray
. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things. -- Laozi
The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have. -- Paul Fleischman
The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes. -- Sam Keen
Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable. -- Gore Vidal
The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience. -- Laozi
We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid. -- Aberjhani
America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries. -- Joseph Boyden
If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change. -- Henry Louis Gates
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. -- Aldrich Ames
In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence. -- Frederick Lenz
I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me. -- Ray Metzker
When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence. -- Meher Baba
In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them. -- Santha Rama Rau
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. -- Eugene Ionesco
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence. -- Carl Mitcham
How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon? -- Shantideva
If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong, -- Ayelet Waldman

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