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Quotes About Having

For example, do we think that we have to HAVE money so we can DO the fun things in life that we want to do, so we can BE happy? In reality it's just the other way around. We are better off BE-ing first, so that we can DO, so that we can HAVE. HAVING is a natural by-product of BE-ing.
~ Karol K. Truman
As you can see, instead of HAVING...DOING...BEING, life works in better harmony when you are BEING...DOING...HAVING. After all, you are NOT a human HAVE-ing nor a Human DO-ing. You are a human BE-ing.
~ Karol K. Truman
A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!
~ Delia Smith
If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.
~ Henry Miller
And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Life is not About Be, Have, Do or being the Best, but To strive for get the best Feeling out of what we Be, Have, Do or Get.
~ Jan Jansen
You know how to make turkey? How would you have learnt that?" From what I knew, most dhampirs stayed nearly year-round at their schools from an early age. Not a lot of culinary time. "Hey," he said, straight-faced. "All knowledge is worth having." Jill laughed. "He wouldn't tell me either.
~ Richelle Mead
You are both rich, my friends, said Ozma, gently; and your riches are the only riches worth having—the riches of content!
~ L. Frank Baum
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.
~ Erich Fromm
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.
~ Erich Fromm
God, originally a symbol for the highest value that we can experience within us, becomes, in the having mode, an idol. In the prophetic concept, an idol is a thing that we ourselves make and project our own powers into, thus impoverishing ourselves. We then submit to our creation and by our submission are in touch with ourselves in an alienated form. While I can have the idol because it is a thing, by my submission to it, it, simultaneously, has me.
~ Erich Fromm
My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.
~ Robin Hobb
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
~ E. V. Lucas
I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.
~ Dan Bongino
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
~ Juvenal
You're the one who made the bargain with Apollymis that I have to live with. Personally, it irks the shit out of me to be traded like some Yu-Gi-Oh! card you got tired of having around the house. (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
...sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
But it seems to be a law of human constitution that those that deserve shall not have and those that do not deserve shall get everything that is worth having.
~ Mark Twain
A lack of being remains unaffected by a plenitude of having.
~ Stephen Batchelor
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
~ Richard Chenevix Trench
The purpose of creative visualization is: To connect us with our being. To help us focus and facilitate our doing. To deepen, expand, and align our having.
~ Shakti Gawain
I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.
~ Sheryl Crow
The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization the obvious degradation of being into having.
~ Guy Debord
Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?
~ Simone Elkeles