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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

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

Chance, World, Control, Things Happen

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, Wonderful, Only, 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

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

Community, Time, Police, Attention, Only

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

Alone, God, Me, Absence, Convince, Thumb

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, Human, Obscure, Just

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, Powerful, Trees

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, No Fear, Depend

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

Society, Reality, Shadows, Lights, Human

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. John Berger

Life, Beautiful, Alone, Believe, Find

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, Sadness, Face, Facts, Feel

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. Erin Morgenstern

Halloween, Believe, You, Said, Air, Own

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand

Freedom, Man, Progress, Men, Society

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. Pam Brown

Dreams, Beautiful, Powerful, Strong, Us

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, Tree, Leaf, Winter, Purpose, Fall

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

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. Christian Lous Lange

Strength, Alone, Struggle, Lion, Chance

I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause. Toussaint Louverture

Work, Equality, Fight, Liberty, Want

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

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

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, Ultimate, Cultivation

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, Thankful, Home, Myself, Patriotism

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Rollo May

World, Way, Patterns, Sense, Narrative

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

Man, Power, Diversity, Poetry, Arrogance

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, Clouds, Flowers

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