Quotes about Existence
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.
— Olly Alexander
There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
— CS Lewis
Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss
— Steven James
opening lines of Ecclesiastes: "'Meaningless! Meaningless!' says the Teacher. 'Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.
— Steven James
What would it look like to live in awe of every moment? To really, really see the terrible splendor, the delicate wonder of life?
— Steven James
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
— Thomas Merton
True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
— Anonymous
There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.
— Marty Rubin
Faith is an expression of the fact that we exist so that the infinite God can dwell in us and work through us for the well-being of the whole creation.
— Miroslav Volf
Even a cursory perusal reveals a very great range of reference. There is hardly a single human action that has not been called—in one way or another—an act of love. Nor is the range confined to the human sphere. If you proceed far enough in your reading, you will find that love has been attributed to almost everything in the universe; that is, everything that exists has been said by someone either to love or to be loved—or both.
— Mortimer Adler
But many of the conceptual constructs that we employ in scientific and in philosophical thought concern objects such as black holes and quarks in physics, and God, spirits, and souls in metaphysics. These are objects about which it is of fundamental importance to ask about their existence in reality.
— Mortimer Adler
If you ask, 'What happens when we die? Why do we die?' you are asking, 'Why do we live?
— Nadine Gordimer