Being Quotes

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in ...

Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, eac...

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...

Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappe...

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is con...

He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' ...

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that i...

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the...

It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where ...

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in ther...

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Still there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and...

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then wha...

This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here...

Leadership is about being a servant first.

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but sipping the nectar of the moment.

The path of nonviolence is the path of respect. It is respect towards every being. It is the path of...

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect ...

Do you know why our poetry today and especially our philosophy are such dead issues? Because they've...

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd m...

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Je...

Imagine that every man’s mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality...

Now, what if Others were encapsulated in Things, in a way that Being towards Things were not ontolog...

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very ...

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a...

Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the...

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other ...

So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wa...

Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as cool as Br...

I don't mind not being cool.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach...

Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the jo...

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo...

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to ...

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin...

I don't like being alone.

The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a pe...

Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at th...

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by...

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representat...

If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they...

Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning i...

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who thi...

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground ...

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds its...

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that ...

Being gifted needs courage.

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what l...

Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

Being seventy is not a sin.

We are beginning to play with ideas of ecology, and although we immediately trivialize these into co...

I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal...

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through day or night, c...

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, t...

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.

The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spirit...

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only ...

Leadership does not depend on being right.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at th...

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-bei...

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.