Being Quotes
Snowboarding was everything that I knew. That's what I did and I poured everything I had into it. I thought that being successful and achieving my goals would go hand-in-hand with being happy.
Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
I don't mind being alone when I'm surrounded by people, I just hate being alone when I'm alone.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it.
What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
For me, being a girlboss is about being the boss of your own life. At 26 I still don't know what's happening in my life, but I'm asking, What will make me happy next?
I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.
I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.
People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.
If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.
Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.
Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.
The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.
Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
I don't think people are skeptical. I think people appreciate the authenticity, actually. I think people are looking for authentic leaders these days and being yourself.
Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people.
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
