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