Being Quotes

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in an old people's home and stop being strong and lose his voice.

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down.

Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback.

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

We must be true to ourselves. And we must be true to others, whether they believe we are or not.

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

I need a prison in order to dream of being free.

While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

Thanks, Mom for always being there For showing me such love and care. Thanks for all you've done and do How I turned out is down to you I love you Have a lovely birthday

Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself.

It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

Being joyful is a choice.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me

Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldnt bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.