661 Quotes About Being

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

Whatever you do don't let anybody talk you into doing something about the way you look ever.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.

Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of man; we seem to be transported into a world different from that which gave us birth.

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

If we do not know the character of being itself - I have never seen anyone suggest that we do know it - then there is an inevitable superficiality in any claim to an exhaustive description of anything that participates in being. And the assertion of the existence, or the nonexistence, of God is the ultimate exhaustive description.

On peut faire la grève tout, sauf d’être.