Being Quotes

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

I'm always being realistic.

I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.

There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

My best memories are because I was on teams I love - even going back to being a kid. Not just in the NBA.

Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

You can be great just by being yourself.

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.

Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.

I'm not sure what my genre is, and to be honest, I'm not a huge fan of that word. I love all types of music regardless of what box it might fit in.

Be the best at what you're good at

Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

It sounds morbid, but because my mother knew she was dying, she discussed with us her not being there, and it helped me and my brother deal with her passing that much better.

God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

At the core of every human being, there is a need for love.

Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.

I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.

Not being perfect hurts.

The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers.

Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.