"To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say."

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"To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say."

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"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Existence, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Existence, Eyes, Light, Meaning, Universe

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Existence, Present

"I am alive because you want me to."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Existence, Life, Gratitude, Love, Connection

"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Existence, Presence, Spirit, Life, Death

"Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Existence, Creation, Life, Truth

"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?"

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Existence, Life, Death, Decay

"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Existence, Life, Consciousness, Awareness

"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Existence, Life, Creation, Animals

"We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have children too and they can have many more children than we do."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Existence, Purpose, Marriage, Life, Animals

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"That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about."

Music, Play, Sound, Talking

"That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them."

People, Now, Want, Will

"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."

Play, Rest, Trying, Years

"You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes."

Music, World

"So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'"

Play, Want

"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."

Poor,

"No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying."

Conversation, Right, Saying, Talk

"Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'"

People,

"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."

Mistake, Mistakes

"After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player."

Time, Being, End, Play