Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.
Our personal identities are socially situated. We are we live, eat, work, and make love. [...] Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. ...
Terror" There is something About you That seems so young So trusting This is the part of you that I most love And the part of you that I am most frightened to hurt Do you think the German poets When speaking of the terror of love Meant the terror tha...
When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.
I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident wit...
What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has...
People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a ...
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people...
I don't like being alone.
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
Isn't that what love is? Being scared, then being brave, because of that one person?
The strongest drug for a human being is another human being!
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.
All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.
Being afraid, being uncertain you’ll succeed, but going ahead anyway— that’s what makes a hero, Berhanu.
There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
