55 quotes
“If you go looking for a friend, you are going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you will find them everywhere.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Existence precedes essence.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”
— Alan Watts
“Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else. It is about being where you are.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“In solitude we remain face to face with the naked being of things”
— Thomas Merton
“What we know matters, but who we are matters more.”
— Brene Brown
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world and faith is the force behind that transformation”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Whatever is, is.”
— Parmenides
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
— Edith Wharton
“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Be the peace you wish to see.”
“Light is the origin of all being”
— Tadao Ando
“Be with those who help your being”
— Rumi
“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”
— Meister Eckhart
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and sharing that self with kindness”
— Joseph Campbell
“I exist as I am that is enough”
— Walt Whitman
“You can only lose something that you have but you cannot lose something that you are and wonder is what you are”
— Eckhart Tolle
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
— Albert Camus
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To know yourself as the being underneath the thinker is freedom”
“If you want to be happy, be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
“Each moment is all being, is the whole world. Anything that exists is yourself.”
— Suzuki Roshi
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“Oh happiness! Our being end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! Whatever thy name.”
— Alexander Pope
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
“The flower does not dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
— Mark Nepo
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
“Language is the house of being.”
— Martin Heidegger
“The thing about the struggle is that it is not a struggle for anything in particular. It is a struggle to be.”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Just to be is a blessing just to live is holy”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
— Hafiz
“The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom. He speaks to creativity itself.”
— Joseph Conrad
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
— Carl Rogers
“Do not try to become anything let the beauty of everything just be it”
— Adyashanti
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
“No need to hurry no need to sparkle no need to be anybody but oneself and wonder at the simple miracle of being”
— Virginia Woolf
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good friend should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being found through compassion”
“Do not just do something, sit there.”
— Sylvia Boorstein
“To be is to be perceived.”
— George Berkeley
“Becoming is better than being.”
— Carol Dweck
“I think, therefore I am.”
— Rene Descartes
“What we know matters but who we are matters more”
“If you go looking for a friend you will find them very scarce if you go out to be a friend you will find them everywhere”
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