Quotes about Existence

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Truth has no beginning.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.