Quotes about Existence

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

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.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

Governed the tides by the distant moon? Who put the "wonder" within my breast? Set off the "joy bells" within my soul? Who gave a reason to even exist? Made earth a "mission" and heaven a "goal"? Mere chance occurrence? Complete mystery? Of course there's a reason, if only we prod. Nature demands it—and so does my heart. There's only one Answer. Only one God!

It's not that somehow we may discover something in how we view ourselves or our enviroment that we'll find suitably fillling, that will help us rise above the daily struggle for existence. I'm saying that everything in the natural world proclaims there's something infinetly more-some wisdom and reason behing everything we see. Just look around. It doesn't take a college degree to see it.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

I think there's strength in being honest and open about yourself and your struggles. But it can also be a challenge. This is my life, I live with my own mental health, and that is happening to me every day. I can talk about it from a position of 'Oh, I've done this' but I'm still living that existence.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.