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