Being Quotes
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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
Lao Tzu
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I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William Walton
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If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.
Nyle DiMarco
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It's weird to sit as a comedian. Being still drives me crazy.
Seth Meyers
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From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.
Robin Williams
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Emotions matter. They influence all aspects of our lives - how we live, work, and play - from the decisions we make and how we communicate. Emotions also influence our overall health and well being.
Rana el Kaliouby
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Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.
Gary Comer
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Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.
Martin Heidegger
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Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.
Raheem DeVaughn
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It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.
Michael Specter
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Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.
William Ramsay
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I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
Richard Lewis
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Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
Coleman Dowell
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world
Raymond Chandler
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Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.
Rick Yancey
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There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.
James Anthony Froude
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I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.
Michelle Pfeiffer
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I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't see a barbed wire fence. FOOM - cut his head right off. And I'll be honest with you, my first thought was... That's how I want to go. Having the time of your life, "whoo hoo!" FOOM. I want the last thought in my head to be, 'Hey, check out that headless snow mobile driver. He's got a jacket just like mine.'
David Crowe
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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.
Andy Gilbert
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There is nothing Clever about not being Happy.
Arnaud Desjardins
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
Martin Heidegger
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Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
Oswald Chambers