Being Quotes

• Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.

  

  Kate Bornstein
  • Different
  • Firsts
  • Accepting

• One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

  

  Kate Constable
  • Power
  • Hold
  • Reluctance

• I just really like being with my sister.

  

  Milly Shapiro
  • Sister
  • Being
  • Really

• I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Judgment
  • Around
  • Gone

• I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

  

  Carolyn Mackler
  • Experience
  • Bullied
  • Shameful

• The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Idea
  • Impossible

• I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Being
  • Read
  • Antidote

• The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Being
  • Activity
  • University

• No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.

  

  Epictetus
  • Needs
  • Being
  • Anything

• For me, drag is not about being a woman - or being anything, specifically.

  

  Aquaria
  • Woman
  • Being
  • Drag

• Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Being
  • Way Of Life
  • Sentimentalism

• Being patted is what it is all about.

  

  Roger Caras
  • Being
  • Patted

• I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Virtue
  • Well-behaved

• Being a leader means being able to help others discover and then live out their by inspiring them to seek it every day.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Leader
  • Inspiring
  • Discover

• Maybe it's just me being lazy but I just don't like describing my music or style or anything, I just like letting people interpret it.

  

  Børns
  • People
  • Lazy
  • Describing

• Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Character
  • Results
  • Gender

• When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.

  

  Jonas Blue
  • Years
  • Musician
  • Seven

• Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
  • Done
  • Beginning

• The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Creativity
  • Level
  • Consist

• People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.

  

  Dayna Devon
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Successful

• I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades parties. I'm so good at breaking stuff down into syllables and sounds. If I were to be doing anything else besides being an actor, I would be a professional charades player. I'm not sure if it exists, but if it didn't, I'll create it.

  

  Wilson Bethel
  • Actor
  • Anything
  • Been

• There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Faith
  • Being
  • Danger

• Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Why
  • Perfect
  • Expand

• We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

  

  Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT
  • People
  • Being
  • Ridiculous

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