#existence

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#life #water #life

Let's not hate the existence of hatred. ↗

— Toba Beta

#creation #existence #hate #hatred #life

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existence #life #man #purpose #realization

The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #living #quality-of-life #time #life

On Time Kahlil Gibran You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and spaceless? But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#dreams

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#mankind #naturalism #nature

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #existence #natural-selection #nature

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#discover #entire #entire universe #equal #equal measure

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#art

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dementors-kiss #empty #existence #remus-lupin #soul