Quotes About Being

Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.

A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!

The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

The aim of living is life itself.

There was a universe inside every human being, just as big as the universe outside them.

There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.

He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else…. 'For in him we live and move and have our being

The first is that God is infinite in His ways as well as His being.

Faith, in the having mode, is a crutch for those who want to be certain, those who want an answer to life without daring to search for it themselves. Faith, in the being mode, is not, in the first place, a belief in certain ideas, but an inner orientation; an attitude.

The difference between being and having is not essentially that between East and West. The difference is rather between a society centered around persons and one centered around things.

The person and the name become equivalent; the name demonstrates that the person is a lasting, indestructible substance—and not a process.

Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after the preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

Freedom in the sense of being unfettered, free from the craving for holding onto things and one's ego, is the condition for love and for productive being. Our human aim, according to Eckhart, is to get rid of the fetters of egoboundness, egocentricity, that is to say the having mode of existence, in order to arrive at full being.

Man is not a subject opposing the world in order to transform it; he is in the world making his being in the world the occasion for constant self-transformation

People should not consider so much what they are to do as what they are. … Thus take care that your emphasis is laid on being good and not on the number or kind of things to be done. Emphasize rather the fundamentals on which your work rests.

Tarih hiçbir ÅŸey deÄŸildir ve hiçbir ÅŸey yapmaz. Bir ÅŸey olan ve yapan, insand?r.

The urge to immortality is not a simple reflex of the death-anxiety but a reaching out by one's whole being toward life. Perhaps this natural expansion of the creature alone can explain why transference is such a universal passion.

He had already learned there was only one day at a time and that is was always the day you were in. It would be today until it was tonight and tomorrow would be today again. This was the main thing he had learned so far.

There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.