Quotes about Existence
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
- Abraham Lincoln
I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
- Jason Fried
God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.
- Mother Angelica
We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Every person on the earth today lived at one time in heavenly realms. We walked with our Heavenly Father. We knew Him. We heard His voice. We loved Him.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
- Muhammad Ali
Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson