Quotation Explorer - 'Being'

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G.K. Chesterton

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. - Stephen Fry

True bondage is being afraid and ashamed of your shadow. - K.A. Hosein

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. - Sigmund Freud

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man. - Hayao Miyazaki

Do something worth praise,The world turns blind,And get ready to face the rage,When you are just being kind. - Bikash Chaurasiya

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. - Ayn Rand

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future - Laurie Anderson

love is like being with you . - litymunshi

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. - Albert Einstein

Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine Providence - Sunday Adelaja

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. - Andy Warhol

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly. - Joyce Meyer

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened. - Neel Burton

I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world. - Joan Didion

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. - Jonathan Ames

Today, people in Baghdad can watch themselves being bombed - what a horrible, magical world we live in!

Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. - Barnett R. Brickner

It’s not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend. - John Paul Warren

Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. - Kittie Frantz

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. - Mahavira

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

...To see your life flow in obscurity among the treasures of the heart and of nature, happy in your anonymity, and to occasionally lose yourself in reading or in the pleasure of being a sensitive admirer of the fine arts; that’s the image of modern life you’re looking for! - Paul-Amadeus Dienach

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury - Jeanette Winterson

it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache.

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being. - Martha Beck

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious - Peter Ustinov

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them. - James Hudson Taylor

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri

My beliefs are the center of my being. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. - Voltaire

Life will astound you when you give something a shot after being shot down. - Julieanne O'Conner

One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. - Barbara Jordan

Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.

Being yourself is so much easier than pretending to be someone else. - Karon Waddell

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. - Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren't a perfect parent. - Colleen Ferrary Bader

Being a ninja mom requires you to have ninja faith! - Anna M. Aquino

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless. - Kate DiCamillo

Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable. - Hugh Elliott

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here. - Kirstie Alley

Great depth of beingness and creativity often come with great woundedness. - Kathryn V. White

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. - Thomas H. Huxley

No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot. - Scott Adams

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene

With regards to getting laid and getting AIDS: Being interesting can be an interesting guy’s downfall. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Find my wrongdoings and blame it on me,Willingly I will accept the fact.I will not change as per your perspective,but will surely not hurt you,While I am being myself. - Bikash Chaurasiya

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. - Jean de La Bruyère

God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence. - Swami Dhyan Giten

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. - Mark Twain

Travel opens us up, exposes us to new people and places. New thoughts, new ways of being and a larger feeling of connection. And, the best part is, that it makes us appreciate our home that much more. - Erin Kouvas

You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility. - Beyers Naudé

I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory. - Augusten Burroughs

Hey, look—your girlfriend is 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? - Eoin Colfer

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized. - Drew Hayden Taylor

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty? - Patrick Henry

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Collectivism is the best solution for a society in harmony. It will be a success when you find a living being, plant or microorganism that it can be applied to. - Hasse Jerner

Life is a Business, by Worship of Human being, we Earn good Deeds'' - - Samar Sudha

There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore. The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent. - Camelia C.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. - C.S. Lewis

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates. - Jon Stewart

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. - Paul Tournier

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it. - Cormac McCarthy

There is no human mind. There is only a universal mind. We borrow it for the time being and try to shape it in our own way to make it unique. It is like owning a plot of land. We borrow it from nature and call it our land. We try to shape it, build on it, and cultivate it. - Debasish Mridha

Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave. - Kate Morton

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you. - Francis de Sales

O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them. - Walter Benjamin

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep. - Taylor Swift

Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. - Scott Adams

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. - Eric Hoffer

To gain wisdom, you must not only acquire knowledge, but you must assimilate it within your being. - Debasish Mridha

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. - DaShanne Stokes

So many today want merely to be familiar with Jesus in contrast to being intimate with Him. - John Paul Warren

When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy. - Therone Shellman

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish. - Lydia Davis

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. - Peter Ustinov

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. - Diane Ackerman

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. - Joseph Conrad

For the being, maybe. But for the spirit, there are no quick sands. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Try to be like someone and you'll lose the beauty of being you; relish His unique workmanship in you. - Steven Chopade

You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait. - Renee Vincent

It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines. - Emily Maguire

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them - Seth Adam Brown

I think fitting in is highly overrated. I’d rather just fit out... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes. - Golda Poretsky

Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts! - Sharon Needles

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. - Samuel Butler

Being authentic begins with unconditional self acceptance - imperfections and all. - Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy

Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human. - Leah C. Fowler

You know when 1 in 2 marriages ends in divorce, 1 in 42 boys have Autism, and safety complaints from the majority of whistle-blower's are not being upheld, that you are living in a seriously dysfunctional society. - Steven Magee

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. - Adyashanti

I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it! - Paul Lee

Don't seek love externally, it's fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken thelove that already exists within; it will encompass everyone andeverything in your life; it will permeate your very being. - Danielle Pierre

Everybody gets hurt. Sometimes a big hurt, sometimes a little hurt. But the person who's suffered a lot isn't especially strong. And the person who's been hurt a little isn't especially weak. What's important is being able to get over it. - Sakura Tsukuba

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Your whole being is deeply troubled- personified the vision of a child's purity, lost in the wilderness of an ever-unchanging and imperfect world. - Compton Gage

Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility offeelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ....so be A REAL HUMAN BEING. - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. - Friedrich Nietzsche

What makes you a Man? In My opinion it is the same thing that makes you a woman. It's what makes us all who we are. The capacity to care. If you stop caring, you stop being. The measure of anyone is determined by their capacity to care. - Tim Dutton

It's not called being gay, it's called being fabulous! - PewDiePie

Great books make great being. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate. - Mohsin Hamid

As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it. - Debasish Mridha

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? - R. Buckminster Fuller

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. - E. B. White

Your voice tears me away from the reality that I exist and places my mind somewhere in between the infinity and beyond. Where everything is made of bliss and magic. Sometimes, I am scared of not hearing it again and never being able to get separated from this chaotic reality again. - Akshay Vasu

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."--(psychologist on the state of being he calls "flow") - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Be fair before being generous, be human before being fair. - Fernán Caballero

Everyday, do more than you could; seek more than you should; understand more than is understood. Thus only a man stops being a hood. - Fakeer Ishavardas

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. - Julia Cameron

Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being. - Claire Fontaine

I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me...like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am. - Michelle M. Pillow

TreeIt is foolishto let a young redwoodgrow next to a house.Even in this one lifetime,you will have to choose.That great calm being,this clutter of soup pots and books--Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life. - Jane Hirshfield

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical. - Stephen L. Carter

The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars.How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking __ - Mary Stolz

What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens? - Ann Leckie

being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous. - Siddhartha Choudhary

Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. - Charles M. Schulz

It's a time for not showing elation but doing introspection for a person who is being often liked by many or most people in his/her circle because almost everyone likes normally someone who only poses no threat to their position in a life full of cut-throat competition. - Anuj Somany

As a bird has the right to sing, so shall every human being have the right to think and express thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about. - Michael Meade

Silence explains a lot of things.It tells us why people are who they not supposed to be.It's the fear of being afraid.It's because of their own safety.Sometimes it becomes an unexplainable feeling.It shows the insecureties, acceptation, love and vulnerabilityinside everyone of us. - Tessa Vanluchene

God is a supernatural being, and a paranormal experience. - Jenna Alatari

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football. - Fran Lebowitz

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching. - Sontag, Susan

Flowers bloom in the tranquility of love with a beautiful desire for the well-being of the earth. - Debasish Mridha

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. - Rollo May

Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't . . . I don't think it's something anybody knows. - L.J. Smith

The key for me was to have faith and trust in God to transform me. This was scary because the foundation that once kept me safe and secure was being taken from me! - Michael Barbarulo

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor. - Alexander Chee

If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people! - Mehmet Murat ildan

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. - Pablo Picasso

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility. - John Green

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death. - Phil Lester

My liberty depends on you being free, too. - Barack Obama

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. - Diogenes the Cynic

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplaceor probing authoritatively the unknown.::: ::: - Brett Whiteley

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. - William Shakespeare

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds. - Elizabeth Aston

It is better being the victim then the victimizer. - Marlene Thornton

If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work. - John Alejandro King

When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. - Cornel West

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Courage is being who you are.Courage is sacred of thyself. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To be honest, i know noting about religion, since the world was created thousand of years ago, am just 30 years of age, and have stopped asking questions about how things came to being, but the truth about what i know is that the truth does not exit because i know noting - lanre efizie

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them. - Ashley Montagu

Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer. - J.D. Cunegan

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. - Jim Morrison

My head was playing an irresistible music that only me was hearing it, and I laid down as if I was a siren waiting for someone to wash away her fear of being seen. You were the river which caught me when I was falling from the sky as a leaf , and you said even if I don’t remember you, you do. - Kenza Slaoui

I didn't want him to be the one I avoided because he'd hurt me. If I was just his friend, then I would still be blessed. If that meant swallowing my pride and being his shoulder when he got hurt, or being the one he ranted at when he was angry; I was prepared to do it and to do it with dignity. - Jessica Thompson

Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.The Abstainer's Handbook (second edition, p. 89) - Matt Haig

Your tears proves that you are an emotional human being; love, joy, sadness and misery touches you deeply. - Debasish Mridha

Don’t walk through life stifling your authenticity, suppressing your uniqueness, hiding your truth out of fear of what others may think, Being someone other than you are only hampers your wellbeing and also wastes a whole lot of your energy. - Renee Cefalu

The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans. - Finley Peter Dunne

To the extent to which your consciousness is limited or expanded, is the extent to which you experience being divided or divine. - Erin Fal Haskell

It’s amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again. - DeWayne Owens

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. - Alain de Botton

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The health sector continuously get’s pummeled by malicious actors and hackers because their cyber-kinetic security is being managed by Participation Trophy winning wimps! - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

We as human being do dream & do expect a lot for what we are not entitled but there comes a phase when we get what we have never expected or dreamt of.... So, Accept every little thing that life offers cause might be this is what we deserve ....... - Anonymous.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. - Doug Larson

We, human beings , are strong because we are capable of change . - Sandesh Hukpachongbang

I am being adult day by day but the first sorrow of my life is still fresh as warm ash. - Agha Kousar

Sand did not suddenly come into being because we had need for glass and silicone. Neither did wild flowers suddenly spring up because a bunch of environmentalists in Texas wanted alternative ways of helping the world without dumping more chemicals into it - these things were already there. - Stephen Richards

And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain. - Sarah Palin

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber

This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it. You can’t truly be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes and the pinnacle of life can only be reached when one can carve their own path. - Nadège Richards

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. - W. E. B. Du Bois

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. - Marilyn Manson

And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was. - Gioconda Belli

It's so easy for some people to get naked. They think they're so promiscuous and avant-garde and rebellious... but year-round their souls are covered in winter clothing! My soul is promiscuous, now how's that for being a rebel without a cause? They are amateurs. - C. JoyBell C.

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you. - Pope Benedict XVI

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. - Richard G. Scott

The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness: the choice to think, to be aware, to send the searchlight of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being. To default on this effort is to default on the self at the most basic level. - Nathaniel Branden

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. - Anne Frank

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing. - Carla H. Krueger

It's important that I make a difference in some way. If it's performing and touching someone that way, that's great; if it's being a teacher and helping a kid understand something, that's even better. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - Samuel Johnson

Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential. - Vishwas Chavan

I think what doesn't kill you makes you a better human being. It opens your eyes, your heart, and your mind. - Derek Hough

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. - Bob Proctor

Oppose vigorously any tendency to sadness ... You must persevere. By means of sorrow the enemy tries to make us weary of good works, but if he sees that we don't give them up and that being done in spite of his opposition they have become very meritorious, he will stop troubling us. - Francis de Sales

The secrets of success are getting started and being persistent. - Debasish Mridha

I like being the girl nobody can have. - Miley Cyrus

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. - Diogenes Laertius

When you live by the demands and supply of life, Life stops being a mystery to you - Sunday Adelaja

I like the way we talk to each other. It feels honest. It was different with Manuel. One of us always had to win. Husbands and wives do that, worry more about being right than being truthful. - Richard Lange

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. - Sigmund Freud

Women are mysterious beings in which lie strange delights. - Stefan Emunds

It is not so much being all that we dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering our being. - Sépi

A relationship is about commitment, making quality time to spend with each other, keeping lines of communication open, being honest and loyal and respecting each others differences. When one person stops doing this, the future of the relationship is in jeopardy, - Karon Waddell

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth - Jean-Paul Sartre

David looked at her and smiled. "I think you have to feel comfortable being alone with yourself before you truly know who you are and can feel comfortable being yourself with others. - Steven Manchesterchester

Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him. - Kazimir Malevich

The idea of death has been associated with the fear of the unknown, and the punishment or reward for our life choices. There is no punishment, and there is no reward. We punish ourselves instantly, when we choose to be destructive. We reward ourselves, when we choose being our loving selves. - Raphael Zernoff

Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins - Nancy S. Mure

Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go - rassool jibraeel snyman

Education itself is Marketing--marketing tools and perspectives to people who don't necessarily realize why they need them, how it will serve them, what they might accomplish with them. And, ensuingly, Marketing itself is Education (with no attempt to assess the value of what is being marketed). - Shellen Lubin

{Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was 'dull', showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius}No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways, the two ways being 13 + 123 and 93 + 103. - Srinivasa Ramanujan

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. The most gigantic intellect may be dwarfed by being cabin'd, cribbed and confined. It requires a great country and great circumstances to develop great men.

It's not the suffering that wears you down and defeats you, it's the meaningless suffering. There's no limit to what human beings will put up with if they think it all has a purpose; there's no limit to what they'll sacrifice - William John Watkins

For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary beings to extraordinary ones. Often they are so appealing and intelligent, you'd rather spend time reading about them than doing anything else. - Jennifer Kaufman

I don’t think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it’s not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype. - Shirley Manson

It's not about being good. It's about being brave. - Lana M. H. Wilder

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means. - Gustave Flaubert

Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it. - Mekael Shane

Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans. - Jimmy Carter

gay marriage... always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual‘s private choice. - G.A. Hauser

I laugh at myself. It's so important to laugh at yourself. Have a little heart chuckle, cry a few tears. It's OK! Don't apologize for being you. Just be you. Be true to who you are and who you want to be! - Akiroq Brost

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The opinions of souls are their state of being. Dwell on your own sacred thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. - Arnold Bennett

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. - Mark Twain

Thought about being a stand up comedienne for zombies, but when they eat you alive, they really eat you!! - Neil Leckman

Dont brag about being perfect..imperfections are what makes you attractive.. - Sandra Chami Kassis

A great relationship is being with the one who compliments your madness instead of conflicting with it. - Marnie Grundman

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty. - Debasish Mridha

It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them. - Rick Bragg

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder. - Bill Byrson

144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We want our place to stand. - Chris Crutcher

People are like vines that grow upwards to the Sun in the heavens. Our ascent is inspired by seeking a deep connection with the divine. When we are attracted to others, we are attracted to a spark of the divine that is a reflection of our true being. - Ambika Devi

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. - Isaac Asimov

You live longer once you realise that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. - Ruth E. Renki

If you do not question everything, you may never find the true answer, you will only find the answer everyone wants to believe.That it called being another sheep in the herd, that is why the people who question things are considered black sheep and the people who give you the answers, Wolves - Theodore Coldiron

.أن يكون لديك هدف -ولو بسيط- أفضل دائمًا من أن تكون بلا هدفHaving a goal, even though it is simple, is always better than being aimless. - Khaled Ibrahim

When it comes to being famous, you’re usually the last to know, and the first to deny it. Unless you were already famous in your head. In which case, party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth! - Carroll Bryant

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. - Malcolm X

Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room. - Tallulah Bankhead

Confidence is being able to say ‘Fuck you, I’m the shit’ without opening your mouth, say it with your walk, with your smile, say it with your entire being. - Tati-Ana Mercedes

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

If you must catch, you must not fear what is being thrown. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

you said " you were insane", while all you did was being sane..!! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission. - Daisaku Ikeda

There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t do. - Steve Buscemi

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

Water is sacred to all Human Beings. If you do not have water, you cannot have life. I always remember to honor and pour the water because it is traditional. - Autumn Morning Star

You are not a human being living your life, but you are a spiritual being longing for life. - Debasish Mridha

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. - Louisa May Alcott

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. - Roger Moore

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone. - Federico Fellini

Time is running faster than watch.Life is running faster than Time.We are running faster than Life.In this race, relationships are being left behind - Pankaj Gupta

One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong. - Sean Stewart

It is not so much being all that you dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering your being. - Sépi

Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse........ - Steve Merrick

The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter. - Terry Pratchett

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. - Charles de Lint

i was told i was conceited today.... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect.... but come on lets be real ........ EVERYONE KNOWS IM PERFECT. - arik maldonales

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me... - Masashi Kishimoto

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights) - Jerrold Mundis

Being fatigued and restless about challenging responsibilities could not lead you to a situation of yourself being highly respected about your dignity and accomplishments. - Saaif Alam

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. - Zora Neale Hurston

the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.. live wild dont be a normal person.. to become presence, means accepting the risk.. and be sure if u don't take risks u'll have a wasted soul.. - Marouane LAASSAFAR

The strength of a human being is in one's hierarchical level, characterised by say separation from physiological needs upwards. - Priyavrat Thareja

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. - Oscar Wilde

The surname of an atheist is compound unfortunate plus being, therefore unfortunate-beings, making all atheists unfortunate beings because human beings are created by God and not products of big bang atoms undergoing evolution. - S. E. Entsua-Mensah

To sleep and being able to. RareTo sleep and deserve it. Rarer. - Saleem Sharma

PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. Judibras - Ambrose Bierce

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human. - Hugh Macleod

While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. - Meryl Streep

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. - Marge Piercy

Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark... - Sergei Lukyanenko

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. - Shannon L. Alder

There are 2 versions of Self Image. Inner and Outer.Get in touch with the inner self image and dispose of any concept of the outer world. Feel the energy that comes from this image and start being true from source of this energy. The source of god. - Matthew Donnelly

Being strong isn't enough, being at limit is the real success. Why? 'cause the heaven is the only N' one limit to fly as away as you can. - Metamorphosis 1398

The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

If you won't be my friend, you'll regret being my enemy - Marie Rutkoski

THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal. - Friedrich Nietzsche

One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created. - C.S. Woolley

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most. - DaShanne Stokes

Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down. - Andrew McMillan

Refrain from being selfish to others, instead make some friend and stand up with dignity. - Lenny Ramirez

Your body may not be, but the quintessence your being and entity is made-up of, is forever. - Fakeer Ishavardas

A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool. - Mahavira

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. - John Berger

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever. - Lana Del Rey

I'll be ready for it to happen and that way it won't happen. It's a burden, being able to control situations with my hyper-vigilance, but it's my lot in life. - Tina Fey

Most people don't often realize that they actually disclose their lies to the person who is truly wise by showing their likes for either the celebrity or no famous personality; but further bigger surprise is that many persons even don't worry of it or fear of being caught of their true identity. - Anuj Somany

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? - Carl Sagan

I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on the planet. - Gini Koch

Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area. - Xaviera Hollander

let yourself cry, OK? One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it…starts to make things darker. - J.A. Redmerski

To the extent you expand your consciousness is the extent to which you experience being divine. - Erin Fall Haskell

If God sets your speed limit high, don't be afraid of your life-car being crashed. - Munia Khan

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? - Bill Hicks

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social? - Michelle M. Pillow

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens Van der Post

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view. - George Bush

I could smell death in the air and I knew it was mine. I could see the world spinning around me and I could sense the blows being thrust into my body. I blacked out. - Anna M. Aquino

Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impulse to express things and to make others understand something that I knew. - Yukio Mishima

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today. - André Breton

Good Person, Good Words and Good Action are independent, wisdom lies in recognizing each of this good irrespective of other one or two being not Good. - Venkat Gandhi

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference. - Teena Booth

Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity. - Thomas Mann

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. - John Ashcroft

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk. - Aristotle

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every human being has divinity encased within its spirit and it is the task of its creator as well as itself to set it free. No human being is an end product, every being still breathing is a creation still under creation. - Toni Sorenson

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men. - Friedrich Nietzsche

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. - Eric Hoffer

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. - Ursula K. Le Guin

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. - William Shakespeare

We all forgot how it is being a human, but human is not a noun, it's a verb. - Alexander Zalan

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. - John O'Hara

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it. - Marilynne Robinson

Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among magicians. - Durgesh Satpathy

Being with you is like living a dream. - Auliq Ice

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. - Henry Miller

A rose that blooms in the desert has the privilege of being the only flower for miles. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do. - Blaine Lee Pardoe

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. - Meg Cabot

It's a luxury being a writer because all you ever think about is life. - Amy Tan

The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves. - Kamand Kojouri

A wise person is wise because he trusts his own being. - Debasish Mridha

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Regardless of the religious tradition, spiritual path, or personal perspective we choose to embrace, the potential exists for it to encourage and uplift every aspect of our being and to affect the types of goals we may choose to set for ourselves. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was. - Paula Heller Garland

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. - C. JoyBell C.

We are the vanguard of our times. What we do in our lifetimes will set the future of all beings. The loving, conscious choices you make for yourself will affect the future of life and of souls uncounted. - Eileen Anglin

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like. - Anna Quindlen

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. - André Malraux

What are you? From where did you come? I have never seen anything like you. The Creator Raven looked at Man and was … surprised to find that this strange new being was so much like himself. - Eskimo creation myth

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Being a good leader does not require you possessing a fancy title, no more than possessing a fancy title makes you a good leader. - Mark W. Boyer

It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. - Doctor Who

All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque. - Tom Stoppard

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie

Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people’s fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water. - Debasish Mridha

Our state of mind, our state of being, and our outlook on life is contagious. - Rob Martin

There is no excuse for being derogatory or dismissive about other's beliefs, paths, choices. Everyone is where they need to be at the right time to learn the right things for them and their personal journey through life. - Jay Woodman

As hard as we strive, man remains a perfect imperfect being. - Auliq-Ice

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again. - Louisa May Alcott

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted. - Sara Sheridan

Learn to be alone. Learn to love being alone. Learn you as you're alone with yourself. - Erica Alex

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable. - Adolf Loos

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do. - Abraham H. Maslow

You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means. - David Javerbaum

All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience. - Debasish Mridha

Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace. - E'yen A. Gardner

The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process. - Adam Fletcher

My whole being is a dark chantthat will carry you perpetuating youto the dawn of eternal growths and blossomingsin this chant I sighed you, ohin this chant,I grafted you to the tree, to the water, to the fire. - فروغ فرخزاد

Fear swept in to fill the silence. Fear of disappearing, of the dark, of the unknown. Fear or being somewhere without this love to define him. 'Don't stop talking,' he tried to say. - Tommy Wallach

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them--when they feel understood by you--that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open. - Stephen Cove

People are so worried about being accepted that it causes them to lose themselves and in turn, lose moments. - Dominic Riccitello

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them. - A.E. Samaan

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to the world. - Ellen G. White

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal. - Mavis Leno

‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it - Max Lucado

I am asked – and I’m speaking to young Canada now – are there rewards in public life? There are – not monetary but there is a tremendous satisfaction in being able to say I tried, I stood. - John G. Diefenbaker

A human being was connected to the world through his or her skin and how could someone with clogged pores feel the environment or be sensitive to its vibrations? - Fatema Mernissi

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being. - Bette Davis

It's me being me making you be you... - Nitya Prakash

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature. - M.H. Abrams

I know it's painful growing,I bet the changes was painful too.But nothing is as painful as being somewhere you don't belong. Obviously. - Touaxia Vang

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness. - Marty Rubin

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer. - Jean M. Auel

When you secretly love someone it makes you an amazingly gentle and loving human being. - Prassant Kevin

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. - Jalaluddin Rumi

He enables [his children] to walk before him; he holds their hand in difficulties; he himself carries them along in hardships that he sees as being otherwise unbearable to them. - Francis de Sales

The call to take the land ...is not a call to a new political, cultural or geographical dominance. It is Kingdom of God territory. It is the will of the Eternal God being done on earth, as it is in heaven. - Ken Baker

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. - George Eliot

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

pain is like the cold. do not give it your attention. but unlike the cold do not deny being in pain - Laetitia R 2015

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'. - Stefan Molyneux

The good thing about being old is not being young. - Stephen Richards

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. - Oscar Wilde

Don’t ask a yes or no question unless the person being asked can say no without hesitation. - Clifford Cohen

I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations. - Stephen Colbert

The blessedness of being little!!! - William Shakespeare

Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you just may be innocently quiet. - Anthony Liccione

With a little care for each other in the business world,we create a better one. A world in which human beings look after their fellow humans. - kamil Toume

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. - Madeleine L'Engle

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being a Christian, for some other people, is not cool-praying, reading bible, lifting your hands while singing Christian songs, listening to a boring sermon? But would it still be cool if you're already in hell? Think about that. - Aby Santos

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief - William Zinsser

If a couple isn’t following God’s guidelines for life or being led by the Holy Spirit, disagreements and misunderstandings skyrocket. - Elizabeth George

Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms. - Shannon L. Alder

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable. - Michelle Franklin

Because if being a badass was easy everyone would do itLexy of Ankh(The Dragon)"Enlightenment - Kim Cormack

Stop being a mystery, discover yourself! - Stephen Richards

In life every man is on a ladder. The steps of that ladder are different for everyone but the last step is the same, that being death.

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them. - Baruch Spinoza

Being assertive enough to avoid being coerced into sex sounds like a good skill to learn. But you have to wonder what the corresponding page on Challenges said: Try not to rape your girlfriend? - Moira Wegel

The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness. - Matt Haig

It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be. - Dawn Gluskin

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. - Roger Crawford

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false. - Swami Dhyan Giten

Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it’s a little closer to being perfect. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

A sacred soul is a spiritual being. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever you choose to do with your time on earth, do it passionately, follow the voice of your soul and don't focus some much on being interested in life, but being the interesting one full of life. - Nikki Rowe

Sing to me a tune of patience; A dream borne of tenacity. Pervade unto my being, a cadence; Whisper to me the depths of eternity... - Marius

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied. - Zadie Smith

Let us be kind and compassionate to all beings. Everyone wants to enjoy their lives, everyone has sufferings, and everyone wants peace and happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. - Oscar Wilde

And The Monster Said "Yes But No Being That Can Cause Such Destruction Without Remorse Can Consider Itself A Person - The Monster Pyro

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back. - Lindsay Lohan

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. - B.F. Skinner

How I describe myself??I guy who likes to be in state of confuse, being confuse makes me incredible in thinking! - Deyth Banger

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful. - Ernest Hemingway

There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I spent a lot of last night being moody and grim.I’m a vampire. We’re allowed to do that. It’s in all the brochures. - Garon Whited

Truly speaking -finding happiness is to do with being selfish, but that doesn't mean true selfish - Praveen Chenna

Who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. - Jack Kerouac

FOR BEING A SUCESSFUL PERSON, ONE NEEDS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF DIVERSIFIED FEILDS. IT WILL IMPROVE YOUR THOUGHTS AND GIVES YOU CREATIVE IDEAS. YOUR VISION WILL BE BROADER AND AIM WILL BE HIGH. WHAT IT NEEDS TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU! - PRIYANSHU JOSHI

You're just being cryptic again. It's like soap opera sex. Lots of boring dialogue and when they finally do go to bed, everything's dark and covered by blankets. - Ragnar Tørnquist

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost

Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself. - Irenaeus of Lyons

Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. ‘Millicent at last understands.’ Nobody ever understands. - Kurt Vonnegut

Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people. - Mansi Soni

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don’t like wasting my time on some assholes. - M.F. Moonzajer

Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real. - Jill Telford

And all I could see would be stars. And stars are the places where the molecules that life is made of were constructed billions of years ago. For example, all the iron in your blood which stops you from being anemic was made in a star. - Mark Haddon

Being on the edge is always worse than going through. - Joseph Brown

For even if we have the sensation of being always surrounded by our own soul, it is not as though by a motionless prison: rather, we are in some sense borne along with it in a perpetual leap to go beyond it. - Marcel Proust

Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions. - Mohit.K.Misra

Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. - Thomas Gold

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. - Oscar Wilde

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it. - David Foster Wallace

Life is about being optimistic and living life in despair is not the last resort of every problem - saleemdurrani

Going through life regretting your past decisions is like being a repeat offender in jail. You never break free because you won't allow your mentality to move on".~The Roadblock is You - Demia Avery

I have to hold that up as a metaphor for everything, being prepared and then being brave enough to just be there. Just listen and follow, maybe jump. Everyone leans in, it brings them into your emotional vicinity because, you said "Risk creates intimacy - Mary-Louise Parker

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. - Don DeLillo

Harmony can be achieved within through meditation, which increases overall well-being and function. - Jay Woodman

The sun is shining - the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing - the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic - being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me - the Magic is in me. It is in me - it is in me. In every one of us. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. - Jim Elliot

Look at mirror! What do you see in you? Do you see someone who can't amount anything in life or do you see a unique human being that was born to dream and conquer the world. - Euginia Herlihy

You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World. - Emery Allen

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there. - Marty Rubin

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think one of the reasons why people tend to fake an entire relationship is maybe they are just afraid of being alone or are lonely right now! - Saif Ullah

Spirituality is the strength of being. - Lailah Gifty Akita

DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed. - Ambrose Bierce

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication. - Lord Byron

Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires. - Michael R. Fletcher

Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola, we contribute to a culture of panic and ignorance. - Ann Brasco

The reason that people start wars is because they still believe in their separation from life. But when you experience the wholeness with all living beings, you understand that hurting somebody else is just hurting yourself as we are all one on the spiritual level. - Swami Dhyan Giten

Even heaven and hell arise just as we think they should be for we are each beings of consciousness creating our own reality. - Jay Woodman

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. - Victor Hugo

He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at the wrong time.* - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Entitlement is an expression of conditional love. Nobody is ever entitled to your love. You always have a right to protect your mental, emotional, and physical well-being by removing yourself from toxic people and circumstances. - Janice Anderson

And so the beauty was in being alone; but it was also the pain. - C. JoyBell C.

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person. - Pope Benedict XVI

I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral. - Brian Richardson

What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his. - Tom Stoppard

We can get the task done without being paid. - Lailah Gifty Akita

... but she was also bewilderingly lonely... Abra had lost her gift for being alone. - John Steinbeck

Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local constabulary after he went round to complain about Luther Blisset’s pet turkey fouling the communal herb garden. - St John Morris

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are energetic beings, all we do is filling voids. - Stefan Emunds

The spirit of man is not a created being; it existed from eternity and will exist to eternity. Anything created cannot be eternal; and earth, water, ect., had their existence in an elementary state, from eternity." ~Joseph Smith, Jr., 2 July 1839 - Documentary History of the Church 3:387 - Joseph Smith Jr.

You can’t ask authentically and gracefully without truly being able to accept No for an answer. Because if you’re not truly willing to accept No for an answer, you’re not really asking, you’re demanding — you’re begging. At least, that’s how I’ve come to understand asking. - Amanda Palmer

What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed. - R.M. Engelhardt

Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate full in our lives. We train in the rejoicing in the good fortune of self and others. - Pema Chödrön

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. - Jean Cocteau

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. - Amy Bloom

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean. - John Banville

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being. - Franz Kafka

The thought of youbeing with someone else isliterally killing me.And you couldn’t care less. BecauseI am just one of the writhing bodiesthat ruined your bed sheets. - Sade Andria Zabala

There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan. - Michael Bassey Johnson

While these Christians (the majority in a recent poll) are particularly concerned that religious freedoms are being eroded in this country, they also want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture, - David Kinnaman

The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake. - Alex G. Zarate

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars. - Tariq Ramadan

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. - Tahir Shah

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift. - Roy T. Bennett

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents. - Ursula Hegi

Every human being has to build a secret temple in his soul where he can shelter himself and find himself again and again. - Debasish Mridha

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. - Winston S. Churchill

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. - Marian Wright Edelman

Being successful is the only way to keep doubters' and haters' mouths shut. - Mohith Agadi

Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent. - Nike Thaddeus

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing. - Donald Harington

On romance books: We might assume then that men, major consumers of thrillers, westerns, and detective fiction, enjoy being beaten up, tortured, shot, stabbed dragged by galloping horses, and thrown out of moving vehicles. - Daphne Clair

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. - Albert Camus

The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans - Dean Cavanagh

The imaginary fortress in your head you seek refuge in; never has, & never will protect your physical being from harm. - Mamur Mustapha

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Being a good person doesn't mean you fit the life of every person you meet. - Shannon L. Alder

Don't be sad because I'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another person that ill have chances to do greater things than me. - Emma Claeys

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. - Oprah Winfrey

Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need. - Craig Mercier

what makes me human; is my mistakes and that i resemble humanbeings...,What makes me a Man is that i am selfish,powerful,minded and stubborn - Sephiwe Mduduzi Msiza

The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline. - Michael Adzema

Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn't make you happy, contentment does. - Joe Mari Fadrigalan

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. - Dylan Thomas

It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it’s vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish. - Lynda Cheldelin Fell

We mistake our mistakes as being damaged. - Taylor Swift

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. - Wade Davis

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. - Andy Warhol

Wisdom is the remnant of being aware (being conscious) - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

If we really are spiritual beings living a physical existence, then we have incredible power. - Sue Fitzmaurice

Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath. - pfano percy rathogwa

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I’m a witness to personal development being the best investment you could ever make by improving yourselfproactively, working on your awareness, improving your skillsand knowledge about how you can get to the edge of yourpotential - Derric Yuh Ndim

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. - Stephen R. Covey

Happiness: the feeling of being alive. - Marty Rubin

True love exists. There's nothing more extraordinary than being lost in its trance by completely opening your heart and merging its rare and beautiful energy with another. - Karen A. Baquiran

Things can be fixed. Relationship CANNOT.Its like standing on a cracked glass plane, you might just adjust yourself for the time being but there will always be a fear of increasing the cracks, fear of falling through, fear of being destroyed. - Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world. - Alexei Maxim Russell

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being. - Simone Elkeles

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it. - Vince Lombardi Jr.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. - Murray N. Rothbard

Don't settle for being an option; become a priority. - Matt Mitchell

Being a writer means you write not only for yourself- but for others as well. That's what makes a writer a writer. - This is my own quote

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies. - Franz Kafka

The real you suffocates under the layers of your learned identity. Uncover the layers so you can truly breathe again from the true center. Being aware of your infinite potential and access awakens the Master with the Master Key within. You have always been settled in oneness with All. - Franklin Gillette

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,downward, in the soaked guts of the earth,absorbing and thinking, eating each day. - Pablo Neruda

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. - James Russell Lowell

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid. - Christopher Hitchens

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency - P.S. Martinez

Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth - Sunday Adelaja

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. - Eartha Kitt

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion. - Virchand Gandhi

Maybe all the events of the last few months had occured for just one reason - to bring Thad and me together. Perhaps our being here on the Titanic wasn't pre-destination, but rather, destiny. - Suzanne Weyn

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line. - Colin Quinn

Evangelism is more about being than being perfect. - Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder. - Fulton J. Sheen

‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. - C.G. Jung

If you want to be clever, that's fine, but being wise is not about being right all the time, it is about acquiring understanding. - R.A.Delmonico

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. - Bette Davis

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft. - Darnell Lamont Walker

The path to mastery involves being a white-belter till it becomes black from use. - Malti Bhojwani

There is surely nothing other than the purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do and nothing else to pursue. We should live by being true to the purpose of each moment. - Rati Tsiteladze

Notice the difference between being in control and needing control. - Marilyn Suttle

In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely. - Stephenie Meyer

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When we observe the words printed in a book, its paper, seemingly a foot away, is not being perceived--the image, the paper, is the perception. - Robert Lanza

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real. - Virginie Despentes

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. - Franz Kafka

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace - Paulo Coelho

From good to the better for the best!Sounds like taken from Advertisement, as for my works. If you are open person in being honest... rape/murder/killing... it's something which is around us. - Deyth Banger

He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man. - Samuel Johnson

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.-- Interview for KJTV-1990 - Zeena Schreck

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations. - Peter Atkins

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. - Walter Lippmann

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die. - Agnostic Zetetic

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge - Ravi Zacharias

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen. - Martin Mull

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish. - Elizabeth Aston

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread. - Matthew Arnold

Because choices need time, the fulness of time, time being the horizontal axis of morality - you make a decision and then you wait and see, wait and see. - White Teeth - Zadie Smith

Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an identity. Being deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound is not an identity, nor is being economically deprived. - Lionel Shriver

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. - Oprah Winfrey

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries. - Audrey Tautou

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right. - Stephen Richards

Other people are only aspects of our own greater being. - Doug Dillon

If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs. - Sui Ishida

Time is running faster than watch.Life is running faster than Time.We are running faster than Life.In this race, relations are being left behind - Pankaj Gupta

There’s a difference between being in love and thinking you’re in love. Real love is unconditional. If Eva truly loved me, she wouldn't try to make me love her. She would accept how I feel, without the catch. - Nichole Beamer

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self. - Aisha Mirza

Zoo: An excellent lace to study the habits of human beings - Evan Esar

If everyone followed the rules, we wouldn't be human...And I'd choose that than being a Robot over any day. - Jet Raymond Hodgkin

Not knowing what you have means not having it (at all). Not knowing where you have what you have means not having it (at all). Not knowing that you don’t own what you don’t have means never getting it. Having, not having – human (being) you are. - VIRGIL PROFEANU

Be self-responsible. Be less dependent on other people. Aim at being the most responsible person you can be. Read about great, successful leaders. Learn to think great thoughts and work to be an excellent person. - Mark F. LaMoure

Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring - Seymour Papert

Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN. - Jaeda DeWalt

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde

You being in your flow helps the rest of us fall into ours. - Tehya Sky

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. - Neil Gaiman

If you want people to be Good to you then stop being Good to them. - honeya

Keeping ‘pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)’ (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop). - Dada Bhagwan