Quotes of: Being-famous Keyword

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Scar Tissue

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

It wasn't just that feeling of coming home - of being intrinsically attached to what was familiar - but more a case of being so in love with a part of the world that everything else paled in comparison.

The Secret of You

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

A Tale for the Time Being

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

Three Bags Full

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

Perfect Chemistry

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

Practical Ethics

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.

The Practice of Everyday Life

No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

Pearl in the Mist

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

A Perfumed Scorpion

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all places, in all times.

The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling

Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.

The Privilege of Being a Woman