{"quotes":[{"text":"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["hurt","meaning","existence "],"id":192,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montclair lip-read. Kids today... You kids today somehow don't know how to feel, much less love, to say nothing of respect. We're just bodies to you. We're just bodies and shoulders and scarred knees and big bellies and empty wallets and flasks to you. I'm not saying something cliché like you take us for granted so much as I'm saying you cannot... Imagine our absence. We're so present it's ceased to mean. We're environmental. Furniture of the world.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["children","existence","generations","parents"],"id":1017,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"},{"text":"Find joy in the faces of children who view life as so magical. Give thanks every day for your life and for your existence. Your life matters, you matter. So many people think and care about you and you’re never really alone! Remember your loved ones are the real gift. I care about you; you have a friend in me. Look forward to knowing that next year is going to be even better than the last….","author":"James A. Murphy","tags":["alone","better","care","children","existence","faces","find","forward","friend","gift","joy","knowing","life","look","loved","magical","people","remember","thanks","think","year"],"id":1440,"author_id":"James+A.+Murphy"},{"text":"You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["afterlife","agnostic","agnostic-atheism","agnostic-prayer","agnostic","agnostic","agnosticism","agnostics","atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-philosophers","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","bangambiki","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","debate","despair-and-attitude","despair-hope","despair","despairing","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","ethics","existence","existentialism","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","hell","hell","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty-integrity-words","honesty","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","hoping","integrity","integrity-of-a-salesman","integrity","life","lose-hope","materialism","meaning-of-life","morality","naturalism","paradise","paradise","paradises","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","respect","secular-ethics","self-respect","sincerity","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","supernaturalism","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":1477,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":1788,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"The God who is human in his divinity is the precise opposite of an essence which in ill-willed fashion closes itself to all human thought and knowledge... As love, rather, God is thinkable, without a distinction capable of made between essence and existence. Love is essentially existing lovingly.","author":"Eberhard Jüngel","tags":["essence","existence","god"],"id":1808,"author_id":"Eberhard+J%C3%BCngel"},{"text":"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. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["abyss","afterlife","calm","common-sense","cradle","darkness","death","eternity","existence","life","life-after-death","light","man"],"id":2057,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"},{"text":"It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["existence","mystical","the-world"],"id":2146,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["existence","free-mind","free-minds","hawking","hawking","horizons","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mars-one","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","mind","space","stephen-hawking","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":2526,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"It was chance. A random series of events given meaning by somone desperate to prove there's a design to our lives. That the minutes and hours between our birth and death are ore than frantic moments of chaos. Because if that's all they are - if there are no rules governing our lives - then our entire existence is a meaningless farce.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["chaos","death","destiny","existence","existentialism"],"id":2841,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1232,"pages":124,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}