Being Quotes

Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty.

Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.

Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.

The trick to being happy is getting beyond the body and the astral realms.

In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser is not going to change until they are pushed in a corner.

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!

When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.

I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

I want to be successful, not famous.

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

It is very easy for us to go, you know, "I am being cruel to be kind," when really we are just ... being cruel. Because it makes us feel big, or whatever.

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

Being a father and trying to love my daughters with unconditional love - those were all good decisions.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

What I love about my husband is that he really allows me to be the best person I can.

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.