Quotes about being

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“Must being in love always mean being in pain?”

“Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.”

“We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.”

“After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.”

“Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.”

“But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.”

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”

“Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.”

“The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.”

“Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.”

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”

“True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.”

“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”

“… we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.”

“Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!”

“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”

“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you
realize.”

“What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!”

“In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.”

“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”

“How ironic. Now that he wasn't with Blay, he was being faithful to the fucker.”

“It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.”

“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”

“… knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”

“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”

“And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?”

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”

“To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.”

“Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”

“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.”

“The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?”

“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”

“It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.”

“In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”

“Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”

“Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.”

“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”

“Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”

“The three "F"s of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and… Reproduction”

“Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.”

“Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.”

“You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.”

“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”

“Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.”

“A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.”

“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born and have tasted life and declare it so good that is merits being duplicated.”

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”

“Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)”

“Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.”

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”

“There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.”

“What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.”

“The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.”

“We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.”

“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.”

“We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves”

“Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.”

“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”

“The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.”

“When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.”

“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”

“Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator."
Stephanie Plum”

“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.”

“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out…”

“No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.”

“It is all just the universe doing its stuff, and we are the stuff it is being done to.”

“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”

“Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.”

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

“Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.”

“Being charming is my hobby.”

“So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.”

“We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”

“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons”

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”

“It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.”

“To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.”

“This is so unfair to you. (Ryssa)
Life isn’t about being fair. It’s not about justice. It’s all about endurance and how much we can suffer through. (Acheron)”

“Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly.”

“Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.”

“Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”

“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”

“Being oppressed means the absence of choices”

“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?”

“Being a stranger was like being dead,
and brought to mind how, in a book he had read
that most folks misunderstood one common state:
The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.”

“Listen,' Clover said. 'Don't worry about not being able to come back, I've lived both places, and trust me, you won't be getting the short end of the stick if you end up in Foo. I mean, candy alone…”

“Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.”

“What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”

“I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.”