Quotes About Being

She is so busy just BEING, talking, walking, making love, drinking, that she can achieve nothing else.

I cannot live without love. Love is at the root of my being.

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

The mating of the future which will be a success will be founded on the truth of being. We are not only making a new woman—we are making a new man. We are not only bringing forth the truth in women but making men desire the truth.

Existing is occupation enough.

It seems to me sometimes that I do not really exist, but that I merely imagine I exist.

The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

Christ spoke of power to the disciples, but it was the Spirit filling their whole being that worked the power.

It is always now

Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived.

In an extended journal entry in 1849, entitled 'A Sister,' Thoreau defines this figure as one 'Whose heart answers to your heart. Whose presence can fill all space. One is a spirit. Who attends to your truth... The stream of whose being unites with your own without a ripple or murmur.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a mind and thoughts, but I am not my mind. I have emotions and feelings, but I am not my emotions.

The Now is the only thing that is real, anyway

You are your life, so your life is wherever you are.

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

Live day by day.

This lost, loose feeling that no consequence could be so harmful as the sense of staying where you were, or of being who you are.

Existence is prior to essence.

I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being. Others in becoming. Being people have all the breaks. Becoming people are very unlucky, always in a tizzy. The Becoming people are always have to make explanations or offer justifications of the Being people. While the Being people provoke these explanations.

In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack!

In this view the body itself, with its two arms and vertical length, was compared to the Cross, on which you knew the agony of consciousness and separate being.

Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This is what Spinoza says.