logo

Quotes About Being

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.
~ John Cheever
The emanation of what you are is love.
~ John de Ruiter
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.
~ Louise Hay
The challenges we've had personally and globally have been the catalysts needed to let go of old ways of being that aren't the vibration of love.
~ Marci Shimoff
When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.
~ Michael Gungor
Most people don't really understand why live makes us vulnerable, or open. It's because love, to be fully expressed and through your being, begins to eliminate all the fears, all the insecurities and all the anxieties that are inconsistent with itself.
~ Betty Bethards
Most people don't really understand why love makes us vulnerable, or open. It's because love, to be fully expressed and through your being, begins to eliminate all the fears, all the insecurities and all the anxieties that are inconsistent with itself.
~ Betty Bethards
Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores.
~ Betty Friedan
Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.
~ Bill Bryson
I feel that it is possible that I might never have existed, for my self consists in thought; therefore I who think would never have been if my mother had been killed before I had come to life; therefore I am not a necessary being. I am not eternal or infinite either…
~ Blaise Pascal
The eternal being exists for ever if he once exists.
~ Blaise Pascal
Let us then realize our limitations. We are something and we are not everything. Such being as we have conceals from us the knowledge of first principles, which arise from nothingness, and the smallness of our being hides infinity from our sight.
~ Blaise Pascal
The meaning of life is life itself.
~ Bob Geldof
Il nous suffit d'être, pour être supérieurs.
~ Boris Cyrulnik
In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.
~ Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live, and not to prepare to live.
~ Boris Pasternak
In the Air he was a miraculous being – a Heavenly Being – but on the Stones of the Pavement he was mortal and subject to the same embarrassments and clumsiness as other mortals.
~ Susanna Clarke
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons that 'animates' us.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Well, once ye ask me to grant ye a wish, lass, there's nae stopping me." "You haven't let me go," she reminded him. "That's because ye being here is the one thing I wish," he muttered, resuming his walk through the foyer.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Eu? Eu nu am facut nimic. -Respiri. E de ajuns.
~ Sylvia Day
I am I am I am.
~ Sylvia Plath
Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God - or the universal woman-and-man - or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.
~ Sylvia Plath
Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
~ T. S. Eliot