Quotes of: Being-alone Keyword

... being different, being unique ... that afforded me a life, a journey that I am now so thankful for.

The Ghost And Its Shadow

Perfectionism is a lost cause. Focus your energy on being the best you can be.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

Blood Noir

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

Richard Dreyfuss

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

Animal Liberation

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The Importance of Being Earnest

It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.

I am a Cat III

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

Immortality

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

De Profundis

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way.

Nikolas Schreck

Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal.

Susan Estrich

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

Steve Garvey

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Shania Twain

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which...

Theodor W. Adorno

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

Taylor Hanson

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

Marian Wright Edelman

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

Mary Karr

But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.

Mercedes Ruehl