Quotes about being

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“Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than id hatred had not preceded it.”

“We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.”

“He not busy being born is busy dying.”

“When a problem is disturbing you, don't ask, "What should I do about it?" Ask, "What part of me is being disturbed by this?”

“Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

“Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them.
Mom: I haven't seen them.
Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!”

“There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.”

“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other”

“Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?”

“and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.”

“We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.”

“She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance. Poppy-and-James.”

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

“Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem”

“A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.”

“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.”

“There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others.”

“Being kissed on the back
of the knee is a moth
at the windowscreen….”

“anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake.

at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.”

“It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply.”

“The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.”

“What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?”

“The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.”

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

“One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.”

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

“She knew it should bother her more, being evil and all, but after she put on a little mascara and some lipstick and poured herself another cup of blood-laced coffee, she found that she was okay with it.”

“People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.”

“being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions”

“I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.”

“Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.”

“And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.”

“The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.”

“Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns being on the bottom.”

“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

“Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.”

“You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.”

“And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.”

“Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.”

“All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.”

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”

“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."

[(Robert Jacobs,, February 1976)]”

“Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.”

“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”

“You just click your heels and think there's no place like being pwned.”

“Favorite Places:
I'm not that good at being a tourist because I'm always looking at the way the light shines in your hair or the way your dress opens to the wind & my favorite places in the world are places filled with you.”

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”

“Hey, look—youris saying something."
Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?”

“Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.”

“We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained.”

“It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.”

“That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.”

“Take your foot out of the graveyard,
they are busy being dead.”

“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”

“Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.”

“The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.”

“We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.”

“I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.”

“Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.”

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”

“Being crazy isn't enough.”

“I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”

“Pain fades,” I said slowly. “But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?” The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu’s face blazing with fury.”

“Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.”

“It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.”

“I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.”

“Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.”

“She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?”

“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”

“Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.”

“When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.”

“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”

“Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.”

“Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.”

“That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”

“You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.”

“Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.”

“Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.”

“That’s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.”

“Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)”

“Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”

“I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.”

“Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.”

“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die…. (90)”

“A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.”

“Hope does not leave without being given permission.”

“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”

“I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“Hatori: "That being said, Yuki… when did you become a woman?"

Yuki: "How dare you say that after you've seen me naked so many times…”

“I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.”

“If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.”

“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”