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• May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Existence

• In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn’t look like a happy existence – it’s just not who I am.

  Eve Hewson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dare, Existence

• I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability – the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wait, Existence

• Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds – and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

  Sam Harris

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Existence, Suffering

• My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It’s the classic idea of the artistic existence.

  Glen Hansard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Planting, Existence
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  No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Business, Country

  Tags in Workers, Existence
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  The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

  Ricky Gervais

  Topics in God

  Tags in Existence, Subjective
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  There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Perfect
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  Meditation is a surrender. It is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way. It is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.

  Osho

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Surrender, Meditation

• Risk isn’t a word in my vocabulary. It’s my very existence.

  Slash

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vocabulary, Existence
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  Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for centuries been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

  Anton Chekhov

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Dear, Existence
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  The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Existence

• Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

  Martin Scorsese

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Element

• We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excess, Existence

• Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. ‘The New Yorker’ has had a very different kind of existence.

  David Remnick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence

• Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn’t have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

  David Lodge

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Existence

• Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

  David John Chalmers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence

• What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

  Peter Nivio Zarlenga

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lie, Lies, Existence

• Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Existence

• There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

  Peter Gay

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Existence