Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.
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Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can...
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.
