Being Quotes

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.

The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

I have myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and coal were prepared for the purposes in which they are being used.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.