Being Quotes

I'm passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, traveling, staying inspired, being a good friend, being a good daughter, being a good sister.

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

There was certainly a space I felt for me, don't complain about it not being there, make it.

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

Don't get consumed by the false idea that being a woman is a disadvantage.

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

I never get far from Well Being.

Well Being is my birthright.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.

I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.

I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.

When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done, that's going to have a positive impact.

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

I cannot abide being bored.

I feel more comfortable being honest because I don't have to "remember" my answers. You never forget the truth! I just have to learn how much truth to give, that's my boundary. That's my new thing.

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.

This is unbelievable to me. I always wanted to be famous, be the best, but I didn't think it would be like this.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.

Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.

I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.

Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.

You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.

Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions

Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly

Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.