Quotes about Existence

Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...