Top 100 Quotes About State Of Being
#1. She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.
Charles Frazier
#2. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.
Uzoma Nnadi
#3. We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
Lenny Kravitz
#4. Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.
Erma Bombeck
#5. I was unhindered by internal conflict - a state of being that I have come to see as fundamental to the learning process.
Josh Waitzkin
#6. Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Douglas Coupland
#7. I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.
Mike Johanns
#8. Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
Adyashanti
#9. When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.
Shunryu Suzuki
#10. The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being.
Mark Steyn
#11. Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
Carl Jung
#12. As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
Harper Lee
#13. We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.
Robert Henri
#14. Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.
Bryant McGill
#15. Thinking isn't just an activity; it manifests as a state of being.
Lori Deschene
#16. The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
Vinod Khosla
#17. Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
Dick Gregory
#19. To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.
Sharon Salzberg
#20. Jude, a bondslave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who by God the Father have been loved and are in a state of being the permanent objects of His love, and who for Jesus Christ have been guarded and are in a permanent state of being carefully watched, to those who are called ones.
Kenneth Wuest
#21. While "caring about" conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, "caring for" is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.
Geneva Gay
#22. Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being.
Harold Klemp
#23. The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away.
Anthony Liccione
#24. Let love be your constant state of being. Do not fear love, do not fear to be owned by love and its subtle madness, for why should you be fearful of that which owns you already.
Maha Khalid
#25. Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.
Kim Chestney
#26. There is a constant suspicion that headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising or making trial of virtue in the higher sense is absolutely stopped; for a man is always fancying that he is being made ill, and is in constant anxiety about the state of his body.
Plato
#27. We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.
Iyanla Vanzant
#28. The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"
Aesop Rock
#29. Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been ... And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip ... at least until it proves otherwise.
Stephen King
#30. Fine,' she said, using the universal Scottish word for every state of being from 'I'm dying in anguish' to 'I'm experiencing euphoric joy.' 'Fine,' she said. 'I'm fine.
Kate Atkinson
#31. The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.
Dalai Lama
#32. What is the goal of a human being? An Indian person can truly achieve a state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma, the Lord]. To achieve one's own Absolute Supreme Self state is the ultimate goal!
Dada Bhagwan
#33. Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.
Madonna Ciccone
#34. Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.
Ronald Reagan
#35. Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.
Marcus Luttrell
#36. In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.
Soren Kierkegaard
#37. I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.
Jessamyn West
#38. This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another.
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all ... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World
Arundhati Roy
#40. Above all, do not loose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#41. Start dream building. Raise your standards to excellence. Imagine yourself at your best and work on self-improvement. Transform yourself to a higher state of being, by concentrating on becoming excellent at what you want.
Mark LaMoure
#42. Being nice is state of "Probability", not a state of "possibility".
Deyth Banger
#43. Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.
Nikki Giovanni
#44. Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.
John C. Calhoun
#45. That's the concept of superposition," Jean said. "Being in more than one place, or more than one state, at the same time.
David Walton
#46. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
Laura Lippman
#47. The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.
Napoleon Hill
#48. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.
Neel Burton
#49. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
Soren Kierkegaard
#50. Then one day it dawned on him that in his heart lay a key to the state of enchantment- of being in love..!
Aporva Kala
#51. Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being "at one" and therefore at peace.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. Beauty does not depend on external details; Beauty reflects the inner disposition, the internal state of one's being.
Morari Bapu
#53. Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.
Darryl Anka
#54. Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden
#55. I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
Samantha Morton
#56. Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation
overcrowding
reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact
of being close to people, of being touched.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#57. He had discovered that grief did not dim with time; it was instead a volatile state of being.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#58. We glorify God, by being contented in that state in which Providence has placed us. We give God the glory of his wisdom, when we rest satisfied with what he carves out to us.
Anonymous
#59. Love is not a relationship; it is a state of being.
Vatsal Surti
#60. I had not been prepared for my employer's approach to vehicular navigation, which was a simple case of being unable to tell the difference between a very large, multi-windowed van that could accommodate a mobile disco and a Formula One racer.
Michael Gurnow
#61. Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many years, to be well received by them. In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.
Jane Austen
#62. Gratitude is a state of being in which we feel connected to everything in the universe. It is a fullness of the heart that recognizes the blessings of Nature within and without. Gratitude is love for the goodness of life itself.
Deepak Chopra
#63. I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.
Rush Limbaugh
#64. I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.
Sarah Gadon
#65. Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away; ...
Robert Montgomery
#66. Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.
Eckhart Tolle
#67. The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
James Baldwin
#68. Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.
Wayne Dyer
#69. Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
#70. Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.
Madeleine L'Engle
#71. I don't go birdwatching. I am birdwatching. Birdwatching is a state of being, not an activity. It doesn't depend on place, on equipment, on specific purpose, like, say, fishing. It is not a matter of organic trainspotting; it is about life and it is about living.
Simon Barnes
#72. Sin is not only a series of actions, it is also an attitude that ignores the law of God. But it is even more than a rebellious attitude. Sin is a state of heart, a condition of our inmost being. It is a state of corruption, of vileness, yes, even of filthiness in God's sight.
Jerry Bridges
#73. Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.
Eckhart Tolle
#74. Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
Bill Crawford
#75. Peace is our natural state of being.
Laozi
#76. Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.
Ric Edelman
#77. Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy.
Bryant McGill
#78. We breathe our deepest during sleep.
When we are in the state of full rest.
We are able to be.
J.R. Rim
#79. Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are everything and everywhere. It doesn't preclude being a student.
Frederick Lenz
#80. When you are blessing the sick, you beg of the Almighty, but actually you are not begging for anything, because from inside your being, energy is pouring into the other person. It is from a state of compassion, of compassionate meditation, that the healing activity of God, within the being, flows.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#81. I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
Joseph R. McCarthy
#82. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain.
Eckhart Tolle
#83. Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.
Tim Curry
#84. The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
Adolf Loos
#85. Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.
Harvey MacKay
#86. You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.
A.S. King
#87. When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#88. Being is a more awakened state than having. To be is to exist in a space of pure choice and creation
Ilchi Lee
#89. It is my hope that the Christian community in the United States will cease to appeal to the Bible as a direct support for the state of Israel and will have the courage to deal with the political realities without being cowed by accusations of anti-Semitism.
Walter Brueggemann
#90. Peace is not just a desired state of being for people, but also enables the flourishing of nature as well as human-created landscapes.
Norris Brock Johnson
#91. I've fought off groups before and making it out in one piece was pure dumb luck. That's it. These days it feels like alive is an accidental state of being.
Courtney Summers
#92. As Tozer expressed it, Human nature, as we know it, is in a formative state. It is being changed into the image of the thing it loves.
Anonymous
#93. As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.
Ai Weiwei
#94. I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.
Michael Feldman
#95. Happiness is absolutely a feeling and a state of well-being, but the key to happiness is understanding that it is created through action.
Kristi Ling
#96. Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.
Milton Resnick
#97. Only in a state of disconnection do we suffer and struggle. The divine intention is for every human being to enjoy unlimited success.
Deepak Chopra
#98. The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.
Sigmund Freud
#99. In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.
Frederick Lenz
#100. There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
Christopher Hitchens
