Quotes about being

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“Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.”

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.”

“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

“Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.”

“So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.”

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

“…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.”

“What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?”

“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.”

“I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.”

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”

“Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”

“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”

“It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U. S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.”

“It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.”

“[…] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.”

“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”

“Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.”

“It's not always easy being her daughter.'

I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity.”

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” —MARGERY WILLIAMS”

“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”

“We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can’t help but be: a part of our world.”

“The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.”

“You're making me nervous by being so weird.
But your weirdness is what I like about you.”

“Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.”

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation”

“I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.”

“Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.”

“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.

“It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.”

“The most depraved type of human being… (is) the man without a purpose.”

“We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us — Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.”

“What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”

“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”

“The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.”

“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”

“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”

“If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.”

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”

“I find myself looking into people's eyes more than I ever did before. And I realize, that's where we stop being a certain gender or color. Just look right into the center of the eye.”

“I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable."

"How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.”

“Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.”

“… you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.”

“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”

“Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.”

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.”

“We do not believe in heaven or hell…; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.”

“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”

“What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”

“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.”

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
or records — Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like
the same things other folks like who are other races.”

“Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.”

“I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.”

“But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.”

“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”

“He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.”

“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”

“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”

“If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.”

“He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!”

“You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.”

“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”

“John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.”

“Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”

“Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.'

'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine.”

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”

“I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being”

“a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.”

“The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.”

“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

“When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.”

“It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead”

“Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.”

“When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf
to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.
There's nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.”

“Aw, now look at that, you're being sarcastic, aren't you?”

“How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.”

“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”

“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures;
they give unconditional love.
For me they are the role model for being alive.”

“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt… it's all part of being in love.”

“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.”

“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.”

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.”

“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”

“There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.”

“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”

“For as long as I can remember, I have always had the feeling of not quite fitting in, not being the same as everyone else.”

“In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!”

“Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. “Ladies? After you.”

“Rude,” Claire said.

“I was being polite!”

“Not when you have a flamethrower.”

“You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”

“It can be… difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form… most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.”

“I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack."
He pulled away.
"What if being packmates isn't enough for me?”