661 Quotes About Being

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.

Praise be to God I’m not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without knowing itOnly with blooming and flowing.This is the only mission in the World,This—to exist clearly,And to know how to do it without thinking about it.)

We are disposable tonight. We are regrettable tonight. We can’t touch one another without the world imploding, tonight.

I watch the news to keep a check on the latest corporate propaganda the masses are being fed.

I am completely okay with being wrong.

By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.