661 Quotes About Being

The most common form of despair is not being who you are. -Soren Kierkegaard

I choose to be me, for now, and forever. I will live my life for me and by me. This is my life and I will live it how I please.

The “Me” today is not the “Me” yesterday and it will not be the “Me” tomorrow; a gentle reminder!

At a time of global instability we have become distanced from each other and the environment. We have lost the immediacy, comfort and truthfulness of the literal and actual, and need to find alternative ways to consume and connect. Hygge describes a way of being that introduces humanity and warmth in our homes, schools, workplaces, cities and nations.

True kinship takes a warm heart. In essence, it is about being together, deeply honestly. We talk about love so much but we forget that it is something we give rather than get: a way of being. -Ilse Crawford

When you're happy you don't think about it. You just are.

Language is for itself the order of the Same. The world is its Other. The attestation of this otherness arises from language's reflexivity with regard to itself, whereby it knows itself as being in being in order to bear on being.

What we are, not what we know, is what brings us prosperity.

When we are content, our daily actions are infused with a quiet satisfaction that we share with those around us. We become aware of and responsible for other people's well being and they, in turn, for ours. Hygge captures a way of being with other people, caring for them and ourselves.