Being Quotes
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Love is woven into the very fabric of our being.
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My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different ways of being, different approaches to life, and our friends, to whom we open ourselves and by whom we are willing to be influenced and directed, play a central role in what becomes of us.
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To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.
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You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.
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I was just 18 years old, excited about being drafted to the N.B.A. I felt like all of Houston was watching me. My high school was watching me. I think they had a draft party at my coach's house. I'll never forget that day, being in the green room with my family and my agent.
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
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Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.
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Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
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The only adjustment I have to make is being in game shape. When you take this time off, you lose a little of that game-time conditioning.
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The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.
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We're so lucky to take being alive for granted.
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You need to learn to say no and need to recognise when you're being exploited.
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What's gone is gone. You cannot change things so what is the point in being an overthinker?
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It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a project - whether it be a big thing like the inauguration or whether it be something that's a longer-term, let's say, educational campaign about a foreign policy issue or a domestic issue - we sit together and we divvy up, and oftentimes it's relevant to different things we do.
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As long as we are being remembered, we remain alive
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When you are 20 years old, you are immature.
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How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. “We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines.” In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes—or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.
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I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.
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We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.
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I don't mind at all being approached when I'm 10 or more feet away from the car. If I'm anywhere away from the car, I'm fine. That's completely expected. But when I'm next to the car or within 10 feet of it, I'm thinking about that or working in that direction. And that's just something I'd rather be able to work on than be interrupted, really, by anybody.
