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Quotes About Being

I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.
~ Franz Kafka
A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.
~ Alysia Reiner
I think of you, therefore I exist.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Love is force of being.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You were a rhyme who mattered, a being who slipped all too often.
~ Dominic Riccitello
You have to grow. You have to be. You have to love yourself unconditionally.
~ Dominic Riccitello
Love for you dances within & around my core of being as regular as the beat of my heart. As certain as the draw and release of each breath.
~ Truth Devour, Wantin
I live by four simple words. Love. Being. Here. Now.
~ Todd Crawshaw, Heretofore
No matter what, you can only live this moment.
~ Krishna Sagar
Better live than dead.
~ Touaxia Vang
may I be I is the only prayer
~ E.E. Cummings
Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.
~ Swami Dhyan Giten
When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is.
~ Swami Dhyan Giten
Experience of the sacred is inherent in man's mode of being in the world.
~ Mircea Eliade
This idea finds its echo today in the conception that nothing can be created without the sacrifice of something very important, usually one's own being. Every vocation implies the supreme sacrifice of the self.
~ Mircea Eliade
As we shall see later, according to certain traditions, metals are also supposed to have issued from the flesh or blood of some immolated primordial, semi-divine being.
~ Mircea Eliade
I believe in being fully present.
~ Mitch Albom
We are taught that we come from God, that we were created in His image, but the things we do as we grow, the way we behave, what is godlike about that? And the terrible things that befall us? How does a supreme being permit them?
~ Mitch Albom
and time is the stuff of which a self is made.
~ Mohsin Hamid
There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly, no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally; and the most barbarous of our maladies is to despise our being.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
Once we give the sense of contradiction its due, we see that genuinely feminist philosophical work ... not only has the potential to revolutionalize philosophy but actually demands a reappraisal, from the ground up, of what it is to be a human—a thinking and sexed—being.
~ Nancy Bauer
At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the idea of them was incomprehensible to her, and she could not imagine having conceived such a being. Useless to waste any more time and breath on this unnatural little girl.
~ Nancy Mitford
the ether in which this little earth floats, in which we move and have our being, is a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that the ether is filled with a form of universal power which adapts itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and influences us, in natural ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equivalent. If
~ Napoleon Hill
He should have told us that the ether in which this little earth floats, in which we move and have our being, is a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that the ether is filled with a form of universal power which ADAPTS itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and INFLUENCES us, in natural ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equivalent.
~ Napoleon Hill