Quotes
Quotes about Being
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.
Presence is more than just being there.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.
Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the last repeating troublesome, Being urged at a time unreasonable.
