Being Quotes
Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance.
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.
Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.
I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.
The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.
When you're anointed, you become blessed of God such that everything you touch or do prospers. To be "blessed" means to be empowered to prosper.
If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.
Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.
Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.
Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.
The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.
Beauty is not a size. You can be a size 2 and be curvy or you can be a size 24 and be curvy Curvy is being a woman.
You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'
Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow
As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.
Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.
The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.
One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.
You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.
I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
