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Letter "E" » existence
«Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
existence, human existence, sane, satisfactory
«Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!»
Author: Kalidasa
| Keywords:
Action The, beauty, bliss, brief, briefed, briefest, briefing, course, dawn, Day After Tomorrow, exhortation, exhortations, existence, glory, growth, growths, lie, lived, look to, morrow, morrows, realities, salutation, salutations, splendor, splendors, therefore, The Day After Tomorrow, to this day, verities, verity, vision, yesterday
«I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.»
Author: Man Ray
(Film Director, Painter, Photographer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
existence, paint, photograph, photographed, photographing
«Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Friendship,
Life
| Keywords:
existence, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, friendships
«Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, derives, deriving, earns, esteem, existence, expression, gains, mere, personal, Personal self, profoundly, response, seeks, selfish, self assertion, self esteem, values
«It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
by no means, existence, fancied, fanciest, fancy, fancying, irrational, look upon
«I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
God,
Life,
Mankind
| Keywords:
affluent, ascend, ascends, attributed, attributing, beings, descends, existence, existence of God, human beings, interesting, material, meanest, poorest, responsibility, scale, scaled, scaling, standard, style, the existence of God
«I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clearing, clearings, conceive, conceives, conceiving, existence, striving, strivings
«It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence»
«Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Ignorance,
Men,
People,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
beyond, both, either, existence, ignorant, middle, Middle way, non, observation, transcended, transcends, Wise Men
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