Top 100 Being Is Quotes
#1. Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
Abraham H. Maslow
#2. The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
Meg Rosoff
#3. We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
Matthieu Ricard
#4. No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.
John Calvin
#5. He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
Gautama Buddha
#6. The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
Sri Aurobindo
#7. There is no fundamental, unalterable difference between things: all is flux, all is perishable. The surface of your being is constantly crumbling; within however you grow hard as a diamond. And perhaps it is this hard, magnetic core inside you which attracts others to you willy-nilly.
Henry Miller
#8. Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see ... it's what I feel like.
Josie Loren
#9. The life of every man is in the Center of Time, for all were seen in the seeing of Meshe, and are in his eye. We are the pupils of his Eye ... Our doing is his Seeing: our being is his Knowing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#10. One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent - or, for that matter, an effective human being - is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to get into their world.
Jane Nelsen
#11. Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.
Jaeda DeWalt
#12. The Soul's sacred ground of being is the foundation for your doing.
from the book, Doing a 360, page 135
Nancy Ash
#13. As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the whole world ... The life of no human being is cheap in the eyes of God, nor can it be in our own eyes.
Billy Graham
#14. Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio ... each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction ... The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Charles Darwin
#15. God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him.
Mother Teresa
#16. That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#17. A compassionate concern for others' well-being is the source of happiness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#18. Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
Aristotle.
#19. A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#20. That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
William Irwin Thompson
#21. Am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.
Ruth Ozeki
#22. Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
Pope Benedict XVI
#23. At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
Blaise Pascal
#24. Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements, but awarenesses that have come together in a ring of power.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Communal well-being is central to human life.
Cat Stevens
#28. The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.
Frederick Lenz
#29. All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.
Ernest Holmes
#30. What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
Ram Dass
#31. A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
Peter Benchley
#32. The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.
Abraham Maslow
#33. An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one's eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.
Bruno Schulz
#34. A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#36. Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.
Louis Riel
#37. The I think, I am, is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#38. No, loving a real human being is weird, hurtful, scary, exhilarating, horrifying, and it's all stitched together with golden threads of needy adoration. He
Leta Blake
#39. Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.
Peter Singer
#40. No matter how deep in disgrace, a human being IS human, after all.
Sayo Masuda
#41. Now the uncle spoke up. 'This cannot be,' he said. 'The human being is designed for many things. Loneliness is not one of them.' ... Mrs. Ramani leaned into me, and said, as a statement of fact. 'We are not meant to go through this life alone.
Liz Tuccillo
#42. As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.
M. Scott Peck
#43. God's being is unitary; it is not composed of a number of parts working harmoniously, but simply one. There is nothing in His justice which forbids the exercise of His mercy.
A.W. Tozer
#44. The spirit within each human being is a small fragment of the Divine and Eternal, and if we give it the opportunity to speak, it will do so - but only when we keep our engagement to dismiss everyday difficulties, be quiet, and listen.
Faith Baldwin
#45. The true nature of a human being is not compatible with the so-called civilized world.
Bryant McGill
#46. I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.
Dana Perino
#47. In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.
Frederick Lenz
#48. If a human being is to ascend to the heights of life, they must first know who they are, where they currently stand, and what they are actually (in truth, not in their limited idea) capable of doing, becoming, and achieving in the world.
Emily Gowor
#49. The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous contemplation and memory of God. I do not mean by that a cerebral memory of God but a memory that works from within the heart.
Kyriacos C. Markides
#50. The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.
D.H. Lawrence
#51. Being is so significant that it is irreplaceable. You are just yourself. Do something that comes out of you - not to assert, but to express! Sing your song, dance your dance, rejoice in being whatever nature has chosen you to be.
Rajneesh
#52. The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
William Shatner
#53. The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
Daniel Berrigan
#54. The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx
#55. This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
Boz Scaggs
#56. The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.
Kathleen Dowling Singh
#57. The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
Janet Jackson
#58. The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
Soren Kierkegaard
#59. I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.
James Agee
#62. Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.
Dada Bhagwan
#63. Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.
Ayn Rand
#64. A human being is a problem in search of a solution.
Robert Ardrey
#65. Every human being has divinity encased within its spirit and it is the task of its creator as well as itself to set it free. No human being is an end product, every being still breathing is a creation still under creation.
Toni Sorenson
#66. The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.
Ajahn Sumedho
#67. I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.
Vladimir Nabokov
#68. A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Eileen Caddy
#69. A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.
K.J. Parker
#70. I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations.
Stephen Colbert
#71. Kate is right there, ready to be scooped up and loved. And I'm so tempted. She is beautiful; not just her face-her entire being is lovely. I see why Vincent is drawn to her.
Amy Plum
#72. A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.
Franco Modigliani
#73. Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.
Mihai Eminescu
#74. The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Kahlil Gibran
#75. One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
Orison Swett Marden
#76. The inner being is not only the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, it is the door to the whole.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#77. Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
Carlos Castaneda
#78. It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.
Deepak Chopra
#79. A human being is a life branching out from God
Masahisa Goi
#80. Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.
Eckhart Tolle
#81. Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#82. The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
Frank Lowy
#83. Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being ... Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.
Eckhart Tolle
#84. Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.
Soren Kierkegaard
#85. The living being is in the state of forgetfulness of his relation with God due to his being overly attracted to material sense gratification from time immemorial.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#86. All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.
Huangbo Xiyun
#87. The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.
Woody Guthrie
#88. Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
Kate Bush
#89. The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.
William James
#90. Affective life thus shows us that we are not only individuals, that our being is not reducible to our individuated being.
Muriel Combes
#91. The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
William Godwin
#92. Falling in love is when your emotional, physical and spiritual well-being is wrapped up in another person and identity of self is lost. EL
Evinda Lepins
#93. According to Kant's late work on the Principles of Politics (1793), the irreducible problem of the human species is the following: the human being is an animal and thus, to live peacefully with other animals of its kind, absolutely needs a master.
Gregg Lambert
#94. From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings.
Russell Peters
#95. The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.
Lee Kuan Yew
#96. Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
Samuel Beckett
#97. A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
Al-Ghazali
#98. Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.
Ben Barnes
#100. The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
Jacob Bronowski
