Quotes
Quotes about Being
Who, being loved, is poor?
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
There is a pleasure sure, in being mad, which none but madmen know.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Conversation, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned Englishâup to fifty words used in correct contextâno human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is ... impossible.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Of course, it's possible to love a human beingâif you don't know them too well.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
