Quotes About Being

Ter nascido me estragou a saúde.

The impression is that I'm still to be born and I can't quite manage it. I'm a heart beating in the world.

Tudo estará em mim, se eu não for; pois "eu" é apenas um dos espasmos instantâneos do mundo.

La vida en mí no tiene mi nombre.

Cuanto menos soy más viva estoy, cuanto más pierdo mi nombre más me llaman.

Soy un ser concomitante: reúno en mí el tiempo pasado, el presente y el futuro, el tiempo que late en el tiempo de los relojes.

Hay muchas cosas por decir que no sé cómo decir. Me faltan las palabras. Pero me niego a inventar otras nuevas. Las que ya existen deben deccir o que se consigue decir y lo que está prohibido. Y lo que está prohibido lo adivino. Si hubiese fuerza. Más allá del pensamiento no hay palabras: se es. Mi pintura no tiene palabras: está más allá del pensamiento. En ese terreno del se es soy puro éxtasis cristalino. Se es. Me soy. Tú te eres.

A vida é igual em toda a parte e o que é necessário é a gente ser a gente.

identity which is the first immanence

Para Sartre a existência precede a essência, no sentido de que existir precede isso que nós somos; e que somos o que nós mesmos escolhemos ser.

I was really in the room.

We all carry the question in the deepest part of our being. We turn on the lights, power up our brains, and fill every crack and crevice with illumination and distraction. But in what shadows remain, there is still that question, waiting for us. Death is waiting for us. Paradoxically, the less space we allot to it, the larger it grows. Perhaps that is why so many of us fear the dark.

All at once the exteriority of the world for the body that opens up to it, the distance of the things in front of this body, their absolute alterity, the body's folding back outside everything that it captures and yet its implication in the visible, the turning back of the visible upon itself that constitutes it as seeing and that causes it to perceive from the very foundation of being to which it adheres.

Live in the moment!

If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live.

Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive habits, inclinations, and attributes.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

He was the only human being who could appreciate and understand who She truly was. She refused to let go of such perfection.

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.

El paisaje es un lienzo extendido en la distancia sobre el que la mirada piensa, donde la memoria ancestral se narra y la eternidad del momento se plasma en la nada superficial y profunda que está sucediendo en los tres tiempos del ser.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Future Perfect Where you were before you were born, and where you are when you're not anymore might be very close. Might be the same place, though neither is as slippery as being here but imagining where you will have been- that point where things land, are finished, over, and gone but not yet.

He lived in the moment, as you were meant to do. He practised mindfulness. No yesterday. No tomorrow. Just now.

Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text of the Apocalypse before us, and let us ask ourselves whether it should or should not make any difference in our present state of being.