No other animal bonds to a human being the way a dog does. And I suspect there is no other animal to which human beings can bond the way we can bond to a dog.
Life's only law is change. Everything is continuously changing, evolving and developing. Hindus say that it takes 840 million lives to become a human being, which emphasises the precious gift of being a human being.
Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.
I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star.
Not many boys like boys; but they like being a boy, showing it, being it together" (22) (rbt: where does this come from? this being a boy, which is also a doing -- this being wrapped in desire? who teaches it? how? when?)
I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.
Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and...
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
I felt a lot better; not being alone in being alone.
Being brave and being alone aren't the same thing.
I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.
I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
