Top 100 We Are Here Quotes
#2. There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.
Brian Andreas
#3. We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
Woodrow Wilson
#4. I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
Rosa Parks
#5. We are here, together. In this wide, wild world, we've managed to meet again.
Ally Condie
#7. It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.
Jon Steele
#8. We are not in this world to live safely. We are here to fall in love and break our hearts.
Antoinette May
#9. If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.
John Petrucci
#10. P 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face in the same primeval forest. That we are here today evidences their victory.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#11. We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL
Mother Teresa
#12. The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this.
In other words, we are here to love.
Sara Wiseman
#13. There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.
Allen West
#14. we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.
Patricia Crone
#15. Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable - we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.
Jeanette Winterson
#16. Quietly contemplate the Lamb as the light of heaven. Light in Scripture is the emblem of joy. The joy of the saints in heaven is comprised in this: Jesus chose us, loved us, bought us, cleansed us, robed us, kept us, glorified us: we are here entirely through the Lord Jesus.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. We are born with a seed of selfhood that contains the spiritual DNA of our uniqueness-an encoded birthright knowledge of who we are, why we are here, and how we are related to others. We may abandon that knowledge as the years go by, but it never abandons us.
Parker J. Palmer
#18. We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H.L. Mencken
#19. We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
Benjamin Tucker
#20. We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability - and this, this is more than enough.
Sera Break
#21. I'm going to draw up a human-rights contract that says everyone on earth must agree we are here as caretakers of the planet, first and foremost.
Jenni Fagan
#22. Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!
Debasish Mridha
#23. Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.
Orhan Pamuk
#24. We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#25. Above all, I was shown that love is supreme. I saw that truly without love we are nothing. We are here to help each other, to care for each other, to understand, forgive, and serve one another. We are here to have love for every person born on earth.
Betty Eadie
#26. We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
B.B. King
#27. I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack."
"The coffin?"
I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#28. We are eternal beings who are connected to God, Source, or whatever you feel comfortable labeling the Divine. What this means is that we are here for joy and for love.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#29. There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.
Merritt A. Edson
#30. We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.
Marcel Proust
#31. We are here for a short time, so live a life of love and kindness, which tends to live long.
Debasish Mridha
#32. I just remember there was one rule: If you've got faults, we expect you to be working on it. And we are here for you. People would welcome each other then. We don't do that anymore. We don't care.
Linda Perhacs
#33. We are here because we know that the only guarantee in life is that if you do nothing, then nothing will change.
Ann Denton
#34. Until we know who we are and why we are here, no amount of success, fame, money, or pleasure will provide much satisfaction.
James C. Dobson
#36. Don't deny the dreams. They're a gift given to make your life full. Accept them. Reach for them. We are not here just to endure hard times until we die. We are here to live, to serve, to trust, and to create out of our longings.
Jane Kirkpatrick
#39. When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go.
Brion Gysin
#40. Always remember that we are here to be kind, loving, and forgiving. We are here to enjoy the abundant ecstasy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#41. There are a lot of things I want to do with you while we are here, Tru, and talking about work is not one of them.
Samantha Towle
#42. Don't care why we have it, we are here to admit that we have it and help each other get rid of it.
Philip Roth
#43. We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!
Fannie Lou Hamer
#44. I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy
Roy Jenkins
#45. We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna
Sister Souljah
#46. When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Kurt Vonnegut
#48. Things have been, says the legal mind, and so we are here. The creative mind says we are here because things have yet to be.
H.G.Wells
#49. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
Annie Dillard
#51. We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler
#52. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere
Gordon B. Hinckley
#53. We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
Josephine Hart
#54. The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose - to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs.
Oswald Chambers
#55. They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help.
Dan Quayle
#56. To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.
James Hollis
#57. We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.
Mark Vonnegut
#58. I truly believe that we are here to bless and prosper, each other.
Louise Hay
#59. We know that you must be very Upset and sad But just to let you know That we are here for you Should you need Help and support At this very sad and hard time That you must be going through
Julie McGregor
#60. Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard ... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.
Tom DeLay
#61. We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
Parker J. Palmer
#62. We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.
Annie Dillard
#63. Explain to me again," he begged," why we are here."
She had told him once before; it had been like listening to a vivid, improbable dream.
Patricia A. McKillip
#64. We are not here to love just one person, we are here to love everything in existence.
Ralph Smart
#65. Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.
Deepak Chopra
#66. People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.
Matt Haig
#67. The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
Audre Lorde
#68. And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle
Theodore Roosevelt
#69. Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
Barack Obama
#70. I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.
James D. Watson
#71. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.
Albert Einstein
#72. I treat every student who walks through those doors the same because we are here to teach, if not political science, maybe a little something about critical thinking or even - gasp! - life. If students came to us fully formed and without insecurities, what would be the point?
Harlan Coben
#73. In this place, fun and laughing makes them angry. We are not here to be leaders, we are here to serve.
Cecelia Ahern
#74. We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the management of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time
Renae A. Sauter
#75. But you'll see, you can feel time on the wind it whips up as it passes. We don't worry about time or the wind. Nothing can touch us any more. As long as people remember us, we are here. Anyway, it's the wind that tells us, lets us know about the thigs we've left behind.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#76. We are here to start an era, to start an Age, to celebrate the transition from the Piscean Age into the Aquarian Age. We are here to celebrate that. We are the pioneers. We are the pioneers of the Dharma. Let's bow our heads in prayer and let us open our hearts.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#77. We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
Dalai Lama XIV
#78. I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way
Bernie Siegel
#79. Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.
Zig Ziglar
#80. I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being ...
Olivia Newton-John
#81. If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.
Giles Andreae
#82. Explain: the evolution of the heart and compassion is what is missing technically. Humans have proceeded to technological advances before without heart balance, without heart evolution. And it has been disastrous. So we are here to evolve heart first until the heart is aligned with this knowledge.
Dolores Cannon
#83. We are here to learn to be human.
Unknown
#84. Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.
Candace Bushnell
#85. [ ... ] That is why we are here today, because we have had the strength within us to survive, a flame inside of us that have not gone out. We are still human, not dust, like millions of others, and we will continue to be, no matter what adversity we face.
Liv-Christine Hoem
#86. Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.
Elaine A. Cannon
#87. We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#88. Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.
Maya Lin
#89. We are not here to adopt Western values, we are here to colonize the U.S. (and Canada) and spread Islamic sharia law Canada has one of the easiest legal systems to penetrate and advance sharia from within ... but if that doesn't work, we won't hesitate to use violent jihad.
Tariq Ramadan
#90. The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
Anne Lamott
#91. Take one day at a time and be aware that every moment and interaction serves a purpose. We are here to learn, love, and share.
Jonathan Kuiper
#92. We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
Benjamin Tucker
#94. We forget that the rest of live can be just as dangerous. I think about how fragile we are here
like fish in a glass bowl with the darkness pressing in on every side.
Carrie Ryan
#95. I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.
Tim Gunn
#96. Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
David Brooks
#97. This is the beginning There are no beginnings or endings We are here Learning And creating and destroying Growing and decaying I want to share with the world and be loved But it always starts with me. The stone dropped Creates the ripples
Isa Ritchie
#98. We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.
William J. Clinton
#99. The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do ... is dependent ... on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.
James Redfield
#100. We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.
Bryant H. McGill
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