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In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. Erik Erikson

Identity, Feeling, Jungle, Alive, Human

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. Guy Finley

Life, Winter, Spring, Tree, Purpose

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence. Paul Auster

Control, World, Feel, Chance, Want, Own

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Swami Vivekananda

Fear, Moment, Help, You, Depend, Never

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. - Jules Verne

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. Jules Verne

Sea, Only, Wonderful, Supernatural

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus

Freedom, World, Free, Rebellion, Way

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. - Isaac Newton

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. Isaac Newton

God, Alone, Me, Absence, Convince, Proof

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. Richard Dawkins

Life, Eyes, Simple, Process, Powerful

Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence. Sebastian Lelio

Society, Reality, Lights, Shadows, Human

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. Robert Peel

Time, Community, Police, Attention, Paid

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung

Light, Darkness, Purpose, Human, Far

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. Charles Bukowski

Fear, Anger, Face, Sadness, Facts, Feel

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. George Carlin

Time, Fire, Job, People, Enough, You

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. Ravi Zacharias

Life, Me, Questions, Die, Meaning, Wrong

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. - B. R. Ambedkar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. B. R. Ambedkar

Mind, Human, Aim, Human Existence

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

Today, Water, Oil, Obscure, Human, Just

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them. Ulysses S. Grant

Love, Home, Great, Thankful, Myself

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. Cyril Connolly

Life, Success, Calm, Harmony, Wave, Up

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy

Power, Man, Diversity, Poetry, Arrogance

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human. Rosa Parks

Life, Home, Man, People, You, Comfort

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating. David Shields

Honesty, Best, Honesty Is, Candid, Way

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life, Wisdom, Struggle, Philosophy

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov

Light, Darkness, Rocks, Common Sense, Us

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett Marden

Nature, Stars, Man, Soul, Clouds, Winds

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. John Piper

Life, Light, God, Time, Together, Design

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats. Hideki Tojo

Freedom, Respect, Free, New, Prejudice

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