55 quotes
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Whatever is, is.”
— Parmenides
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
— Hafiz
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
“If you want to be happy, be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Do not just do something, sit there.”
— Sylvia Boorstein
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
— Brene Brown
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
— Edith Wharton
“If you go looking for a friend you will find them very scarce if you go out to be a friend you will find them everywhere”
— Zig Ziglar
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
— Walt Whitman
“Just to be is a blessing just to live is holy”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“You can only lose something that you have but you cannot lose something that you are and wonder is what you are”
— Eckhart Tolle
“No need to hurry no need to sparkle no need to be anybody but oneself and wonder at the simple miracle of being”
— Virginia Woolf
“What we know matters, but who we are matters more.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
— Albert Camus
“To be is to be perceived.”
— George Berkeley
“Becoming is better than being.”
— Carol Dweck
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
“Language is the house of being.”
— Martin Heidegger
“The thing about the struggle is that it is not a struggle for anything in particular. It is a struggle to be.”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Oh happiness! Our being end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! Whatever thy name.”
— Alexander Pope
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Be the peace you wish to see.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“If you go looking for a friend, you are going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you will find them everywhere.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
“I exist as I am that is enough”
“What we know matters but who we are matters more”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good friend should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being found through compassion”
“Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else. It is about being where you are.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“Light is the origin of all being”
— Tadao Ando
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world and faith is the force behind that transformation”
“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“In solitude we remain face to face with the naked being of things”
— Thomas Merton
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“To know yourself as the being underneath the thinker is freedom”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
“Be with those who help your being”
— Rumi
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and sharing that self with kindness”
— Joseph Campbell
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
— Carl Rogers
“Each moment is all being, is the whole world. Anything that exists is yourself.”
— Suzuki Roshi
“The flower does not dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
— Mark Nepo
“Do not try to become anything let the beauty of everything just be it”
— Adyashanti
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”
— Alan Watts
“Existence precedes essence.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”
— Meister Eckhart
“I think, therefore I am.”
— Rene Descartes
“The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom. He speaks to creativity itself.”
— Joseph Conrad
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