#existence

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#dream-walker #existence #jagang #life #thoughts

Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula ↗

— Michael Ende

#inspirational #inspirational

That’s what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually they’re gonna start throwing a fit over who gets what part to play with. ↗

— Jacob D. Lochner

#politics #sociology #sociology

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ↗

— John Tyndall

#consecutive #existence #life #life is a #moments

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. ↗

— James Buchan

#almost #call #century #commodity #existence

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly. ↗

— James Buchan

#chances #conditions #despots #each #east

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#existence #lending #nothing #poetry #shadows

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. ↗

— Lord Byron

#face #got #harlot #hold #hope

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#existence #full-time #having #i #life

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#choices #essentially #every #existence #field