Quotes of: Being-there Keyword

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?

Refusing Heaven

Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

Romeo and Juliet

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitati...

Relational Ontology

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One

A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.

Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive

That was torture--being able to see, and smell, and hear, and being trapped in a cage. Like standing on the wrong side of the fence, only a few feet from freedom, and knowing you'll never cross it. Yeah. Like that.

Requiem

The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique quality which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

The Soulphisticated Lady's Guide to Being a Boss

...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing.

Speed Your Evolution: Become the Star Being You Are Meant to Be

...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love.

Swift as Desire

She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I didn't see how this was any different from the way she looked down on people for being Christians.

Sing You Home

He’d always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being involved with him meant moving back here. Being surrounded by bad memories.

Slow Ride Home

If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.

Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself.

My Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it’s one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

The Magic

As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.

We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright.

Man's Search for Meaning