Being Quotes

Love is not being judged.

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.

To me, being a woman in 2016 is allowing myself to contain multitudes. Looking at who's given the space to do so and why.

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

Being single is wonderful and I love it. I don't ever have a morning where I wake up and say, 'I really need to find a boyfriend today.'

There are beautiful things about both being in love and being out of love. I just think you have to find those things.

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.

If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me.

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

I was consumed with being a mom. I didn't think beyond that.

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

How can depression be real if our eyes arent real?

I think my secret would have to be just being true to who I am and just being myself.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

To be honest I'm the only one really who's a cowboy. Like an honest to goodness cowboy.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.

It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.

I've developed a way to separate myself from me being me, to me being the character. I can separate watching me, Tinsel Korey, from watching Emily

Everyone has experienced alienation - at some point you go through a moment where you say: "I just want to be left alone." And what is the ultimate point of being alone? - it's dying, of course.

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

It pays to be nice. Maybe not right away, but someday.

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.

Doing for others may be the only way to create lasting well-being.

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.