Being Quotes

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

What is not in nature can never be true.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

The more we are concerned for the well being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.

Dogs are obsessed with being happy.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Maybellene, why can't you be true?

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn't afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn't have three heads. I want a regular human being.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't.

I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t...

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.

I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the “average” label.

You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny.

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.