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