Quotes About Being

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. I unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive.

But the most important word in the language has but two letters: is. Is. I am at its core. I still am. I am at the living and soft centre. Still. It sparkles and is elastic.

the most important word in the language has but two letters: is. Is.

Vivimos exclusivamente en el presente pues siempre y eternamente es el día de hoy -y el día de mañana será un hoy, la eternidad es el estado de las cosas en este momento.

I had reached nothingness, and the nothingness was live and moist.

Every thing has an instant in which it is. I want to grab hold of the is of the thing. These instants passing through the air I breathe: in fireworks they explode silently in space.

Nothing that I am not can interest me, it is impossible to be anything more than what you are.

I was born a few instants ago and I am dimmed.

Since I am, the thing to do is to be

Como se explica que o meu maior medo seja exatamente o de ir vivendo o que for sendo?

Si esta historia no existe, pasará a existir. Pensar es un acto. Sentir es un hecho.

Sometimes she didn't think. Sometimes a person sat there being. She didn't have to do. Being was already doing. You could be slowly or a bit fast.

Aquello que será después es ahora. Ahora es el dominio de ahora. Y mientras dura la improvisación yo nazco.

Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!

Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva.

The vibration of the heat was like the vibration of a sung oratorio. Only my hearing part was feeling. Closed-mouth canticle, sound vibrating deaf like something imprisoned and contained, amen, amen. Canticle of thanksgiving for the murder of one being by another being.

because our living matter is greater than we are

De repente as coisas não precisam mais fazer sentido. Satisfaço-me em ser. Tu és? Tenho certeza que sim. O não sentido das coisas me faz ter um sorriso de complacência. De certo tudo deve estar sendo o que é.

Clarice Lispector