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Quotes About Being

No civilized being lived in North Dakota.
~ Lois Greiman
I am. I was. I am not. I never am.
~ Unknown
A personal philosophical experience of moving out of a world of sense and arriving, dazed and disoriented for a while, into a universe of being.
~ Unknown
God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God. Now, in an utterly simple being there can be nothing that is not that simple being itself. In God, therefore, whatever really is, is the same as God, is the same as that which is, is the same as that which subsists, and hence necessarily subsists.
~ Unknown
homage to glorious samantabhadra, the all-good to timeless buddhahood, basic total presence, to unchanging spontaneity, the spacious vajra-heart, to the nature of mind - natural perfection, constantly, simply being, we bow down.
~ Longchenpa
O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!
~ Unknown
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.
~ Lord Byron
Tis to create, and in creating live a being more intense, that we endow with form our fancy, gaining as we give the life we image, even as I do now.
~ Lord Byron
You've got it backward, Harry," he said. "You are a soul. You have a body.
~ Jim Butcher
When I look into someone's eyes, into their soul, their innermost being, they can see mine in return—the things I had done, the things I was willing to do, the things I was capable of doing.
~ Jim Butcher
I don't make metaphors. ... I'm too busy being one. - Leanansidhe
~ Jim Butcher
It was a loss of identity. I was a wizard. It was more than just a job, more than just a title. Wizardry was at the core of my being. It was my relationship with my magic, the way I used it, the things it let me do that defined me, shaped me, gave me purpose. I
~ Jim Butcher
Bob was a spirit being, a spirit of intellect from one of the more surreal corners of the Nevernever. He wasn't evil as much as he was magnificently innocent of any kind of morality
~ Jim Butcher
You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.
~ Jim Harrison
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
~ Jim Morrison
No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
~ Jim Morrison
I am what I am. To look for 'reasons' is beside the point.
~ Joan Didion
You see what the world of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.
~ Joan Didion
You see what the word of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.
~ Joan Didion
A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.
~ Joanne Harris
We are constantly invited to be who we are.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You are a more powerful creative being than you could have ever dreamed possible!
~ Unknown
We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
Identity may be termed as action which is conscious of itself.
~ Unknown