Quotes about being
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“There is an aliveness in you that you can feel with your Being, not just in the head. Every cell is alive in that presence in which you don't need to think. Yet, in that state, if thought is required for some practical purpose, it is there. The mind can still operate, and it operated beautifully when the greater intelligence that you are uses it and expresses itself through it.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003)

Feeling, Intelligence, Thinking

“Being positive is attracting good energy to you, without needing to suck energy from others.”

Valter Bitencourt Júnior (1994) Brazilian poet and writer

“Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher

Courage, Decision

“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Happiness

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

Wisdom, Time, Wise

“Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Life

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

Thinking, Appearance

“Stop being who you were and become who you are.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir (2005), p. 215.

“The human being, corrupted to the root, can neither desire nor perform anything but evil.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

The Making of Martin Luther, By Richard Rex, p66
Attributed

Evil

“Before I had a lot of problems with my body language – being more a part of the game and training. My body language was the same. Sometimes you have to be more angry. For me that was never going to happen.”

Robert Lewandowski (1988) Polish association football player

Game, Problem, Parting, Training

“Feelings and emotions are the eternal superiority of a reasonable human being over his creation – artificial intelligence.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Feeling, Intelligence

“Truth is what we are. It is our essential nature and Being. It is the pure Self, the limitless one, the ultimate reality – it is awareness itself.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Truth, Nature, Reality

“It is time to leave behind childish attitudes and begin to pay a little more attention to what is really here. This is a time-body, a mortal body, but an immortal presence is moving in it. While the body is still warm, use this bodily life to rediscover your timeless Being.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Introduction

Life, Time

“A human being is a flower that originates miraculously amidst a cosmic desert, capable of becoming a blossoming universal tree if we recognize this meaning and sincerely desire to.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Flowers, Tree, Universe, Sincerity

“I definitely think that I would be a different person without sports; they taught me so much. Just about myself, patience, teamwork, listening... it's taught me so much that I feel like I've applied to being a mom.”

Alex Morgan (1989) American soccer player

"The Advice Alex Morgan Would Give Her Daughter About Getting Into Sports" https://www.romper.com/life/alex-morgan-olympics-daughter-interview (July 10, 2021)

Feeling, Moms, Thinking, Sport

“In reality, no human being, with the right mindset can ever allow someone to slap them while sitting idle.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Reality

“Most of the geniuses have a record of being isolated from the masses—Because great ideas comes only when you’re alone. Same as revelation to the prophets.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Idea

“The first step of knowing yourself is being fearless to make mistakes.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The soul is the only difference between human beings and the dead.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Soul, Dead

“Where is the miracle in Jesus being dead in the tomb instead of being alive just as the people expected Jonah to be dead inside a fish?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

People, Fish, Dead

“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence. Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

Fear, Thinking, Silence

“The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.”

Elmer Davis (1890–1958) American politician

As quoted in Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies by Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) p. 64.

People, Way, Idea

“For some reason, I'm the guy people love to hate, which I think is weird. People who know me find that very strange, but for some reason, I am. I don't mind being that guy - I have fun with it.”

Dave Bautista (1969) American actor and professional wrestler

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Love, Hate, People, Guy

“Meeting you for the first time felt like my search was over and you became a part of my life's journey despite being a stranger and time passed and you slowly became my destination.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Life, Search, Time, Parting

“By drinking water, you are essentially informing yourself. Even if you are not yet at the point to be able to be consciously aware of what information you are absorbing, that information the water contains is being transferred to your being.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Drink, Water

“Devotion to God and service to fellow beings is the pivot of life.”

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270

Life, God

“How quick we are to form an opinion of a person, to come to a conclusion about them. It is satisfying to the egoic mind to label another human being, to give them a conceptual identity, to pronounce righteous judgment upon them.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Chapter 8 Relationships

Personality

“Whenever you bring your attention to anything natural, anything that has come into existence without human intervention, you step out of the prison of conceptualized thinking and, to some extent, participate in the state of connectedness with Being in which everything natural still exists.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 7

Nature, Thinking

“Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 1

World, Nature

“Capital is money: Capital is commodities. […] For the movement, in the course of which it adds surplus-value, is its own movement, its expansion, therefore, is automatic expansion. Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

Source: Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 2, pg. 171.

Money

“And who is and should be a pessimist? He who is mature for death. He can love life so scarcely as he [the optimist] can depart from it. If he does not realize that he will survive in his children, his procreation loses its horrible character; but if he realizes it, he will recoil in horror from it, just like Humboldt noticing that it is paying dearly for a few minutes of pleasure with the torments that another being must endure perhaps for eighty years, and consider the procreation of children as a crime and justly so.”

Philipp Mainländer (1841–1876) German poet and philosopher

Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Metaphysik, § 21 ISBN 978-1494963262

Love, Life, Death, Children

“I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives... I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, you know... I’d be very pleased to know what they think they’re doing. I think they’re all insane. But I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that, you know. That’s what is insane about it.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Source: Lennon “Our society is run by insane people”, Interview, June 6, 1968, Educate Inspire Change https://educateinspirechange.org/john-lennon-society-run-insane-people/John June 10, 2014

People, Thinking

“We must use our brains to overcome our brains. You are the solution to this crazy world we find ourselves in. Do everything you can to reach others. Teach. Elevate. Encourage critical thinking. But do it with kindness and understanding. People who believe crazy things are only guilty of being human. Remember this and show compassion.”

Guy P. Harrison (1963) American skeptic author

People, World, Understanding, Thinking

“Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this time? But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 1

Wisdom, World, Intelligence, Knowledge

“Every human being has been conditioned to think and behave in certain ways– conditioned genetically as well as by their childhood experiences and their cultural environment. That is not who they are, but that is who they appear to be. When you pronounce judgment upon someone, you confuse those conditioned mind patterns with who they are. To do that is in itself a deeply conditioned and unconscious pattern. You give them a conceptual identity, and that false identity becomes a prison not only for the other person but also for yourself.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 8

Way, Thinking, Appearance, Childhood

“Something of its essence then transmits itself to you. You can sense how still it is, and in doing so the same stillness arises within you. You sense how deeply it rests in Being–completely at one with what it is and where it is. In realizing this, you too come to a place of rest deep within yourself.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 7

Sense

“Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something, and thereby become diminished and be less. These two movements obscure the fact that being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, now.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 5

People, Fear

“All the misery on the planet arises due to a personalized sense of me or us. That covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence, in the end, you always create misery. It's as simple as that. When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 5

Fear, Beauty, Motivation, Sense

“The human condition: Lost in thought Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings, it is the Christ within, or your Buddha nature.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Chapter 2 Beyond the Thinking Mind

Life, People, Nature, Sense

“A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Introduction

Truth, Sense, Teachers, Help

“We embrace this dream altogether, regardless of our class, our region, and our religious community. All these are secondary to me compared to human dignity, compared to the respect for the human being and the individual, compared to the right of the Lebanese to enjoy security, safety, and equality without any discrimination whatsoever, this is what matters to me. We must build the state of today for the year 2000, we do not want to go backward, restore and build on the remnants of the state of 1943.”

Bachir Gemayel (1947–1982) Lebanese politician and militia commander

Source: History of the Kataeb Party

Dreams, Communication

“A person, being in the orbit of developed humanism can become an unchangeable creator of higher values.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Personality

“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.”

Unknown author

Dreams, Thinking

“Always give it your All,
despite the odds being against you.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“Growth occurs outside the comfort zone.
You can not expect to evolve as a well rounded individual if you are afraid to get dirty.
I am never regretful of having tragedy and loss any longer…for I see how strong these horrendous experiences have caused me to become a pillar of strength amongst others.
From every negative circumstance any of us experience…there is another part of us that becomes engorged with strength
which not only allows us to get through that terrible circumstance, but maintain ourselves once the trauma has diminished enough for us to see things more clearly in retrospect…and experience this wonderful inner strength.
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from 'I can't do this' to 'I MUST do this!'
Also, The struggles in your life creates empathy. One can relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love you nor care that they are intentionally trying to decimate you. It is when you are faced with pure evil…when the people who were your life change and turn on you…enjoying to make you suffer. They know what they are doing. They are responsible for your pain.
Don't give up.
Look within.
Don't wear white.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Love, Life, Pain, People

“Have you ever been really scared and then your muscles relaxed? Being scared is just one relaxation of muscles, an orgasm is the contraction and relaxation of muscles over and over. then afterward, you are really sensitive to touch. your toes are tingly, heart rate is really high, you're all hot, you cant focus on anything other than the feelings coursing through your body.
its all warm, wet, hot, a sensory overload really.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Feeling, Heart

“I want to develop my aesthetic sense without being too influenced. In a dress I try to be personal and that transmits my inspiration, that makes me look and feel unique.”

Berta Castañé (2002) Spanish actress and model

Quiero desarrollar mi sentido de la estética sin dejarme influir demasiado. En un vestido busco que sea personal y que me transmita mi propia inspiración, que me haga parecer y sentir única. <br class="br">From the interview of Begoña Clérigues, Cómo vestir a una actriz para la alfombra roja https://www.lasprovincias.es/revista-valencia/vestir-actriz-alfombra-20220208190641-nt.html, lasprovincias.es, 9 February 2022.

Feeling, Sense, Personality

“The whole experience of all Souls is about choice. Always and forever, choice, choice, choice.
Free choice. The choice of Divine Beings, being Divine.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Soul

“After you have gotten the mind, allowed the mind, to remove its focus from your story—tell it to refocus on what you—Big You—now choose to be. Once you get free of your story and your data, once you get to the space of no-thought, you then choose a state of being.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

Plato The Republic

Source: Republic

Penalty

“Better to be hated for being true than to be loved for being false.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Meglio essere odiati per essere veri che essere amati per essere falsi.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Hate, Falseness

“It's fascinating the intellect of a person who always has a resource, who instead of getting down about a problem look for a solution. The mind remains the most interesting and engaging place of a human being.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: È affascinante l'intelletto di una persona che ha sempre una risorsa, che invece di abbattersi per un problema cerca una soluzione. La mente rimane il posto più interessante e coinvolgente di un essere umano.
Source: prevale.net

Problem, Personality

“People who were wounded by being incompatible with their family and therefore being pushed away, shamed and rejected for who they are, are desperate to belong. They are so desperate for connection that they commit to people who are incompatible to them even after they become aware of the incompatibility. It is a bit like being so desperate for water that you'll drink it even if you know it is poisoned.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

People, Family, Drink, Water

“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

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“Fiction is far more accurate than History when it comes to the human being.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

History

“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

People, Universe

“If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus on Top

“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

Love, Life, Time

“None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a really ripped, really tall, and really pissed off Russian guy.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Guy

“Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'

Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

Hope, Parting

“Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

Light

“What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Soul, Personality

“I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.”

Marilynne Robinson (1943) American novelist and essayist

Source: When I Was a Child I Read Books

Love, God, World, Imagination

“The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.”

Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American sportswriter

Love, Making love

“The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.”

Patricia Briggs book Iron Kissed

Source: Iron Kissed

“We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicionwork with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)”

Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain

Source: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Sometimes being a leader isn’t about winning. Sometimes it’s about doing what’s right, instead of what’s powerful.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Nevermore

“Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

Source: Selected Poems Selected Poems

Love

“But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.”

Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) Japanese author

Source: Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

Happiness, World, Hope

“… the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.”

Margaret Edson Wit

Source: Wit

Time

“Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.”

Rebecca Solnit book Men Explain Things To Me

Source: Men Explain Things to Me

Women, War, Truth, Idea

“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

Source: The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Life

“The future is an inﬁnite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in deﬁance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270.
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Context: To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacriﬁce, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magniﬁcently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an inﬁnite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in deﬁance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Thinking, Success, Future, Victory

“But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Sister

“The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.”

Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer

Source: The Argonauts

“People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

People, Time, Past

“Things weren’t the same with us, not right away, and maybe not ever. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other’s lives without being everything to each other.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory”

Erich Segal (1937–2010) American writer

Victory, Parting

“Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Thinking

“Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.”

Robin McKinley Chalice

Source: Chalice

Laughter

“He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.”

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary

Source: The Rum Diary

Way, Idea

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

Imagination, Idea, Fashion

“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Fear

“I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Variant: To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle.”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other

Fate

“But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.”

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer

World, Beauty, Art, Music

“I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Source: Time to Let Go

Happiness, Way, Thinking, Hurt

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

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

An American Prayer (1978)
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it

Art, Perfection

“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Variant: The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Source: How to Be Good

Love