Top 100 Way Of Being Quotes
#1. So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
Kathy Mattea
#2. I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.
Isabelle Huppert
#3. Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.
Ardeth Kapp
#4. I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
Jock Sturges
#5. A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.
Susan Sontag
#6. I used to sit and cry and hold a loaded gun up to my head but I chose a slower way of being dead
Raegan Butcher
#7. ...though it was too true that life as she is lived has a way of being curiously different from life as described by novelists.
Stella Gibbons
#8. It was true. I wasn't good with liking someone. my instinct was total self-preservation: show no sign of weakness. This was my pathetic way of being shy.
Jennifer Castle
#9. He still felt coreless - he was no one, and he was standing here in the middle of no country. The place was counterfeit, a waiting room between connections, a transition from one way of being to another, which for the moment was neither way, no way.
Paul Bowles
#10. There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.
Charles Taylor
#11. I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. A spark flew off Arnold and shook me, like a chill. I wanted to cry; I felt very odd. I had fallen into a new way of being happy.
Sylvia Plath
#12. Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.
Wallace Stegner
#13. Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.
John Hillaby
#14. Be happy.
It's one way of being wise.
Colette
#15. When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.
Sheila Heti
#16. There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this way of being - exaggeration, for example, is the key to advertising success in the United States. But hyperbole also seems a big part of Iranian culture, as well.
Porochista Khakpour
#17. Being of service does not mean we are less than or subservient to anyone or anything. It's a way of being that invites grace and abundance in our daily lives. Being of service means giving to others without expecting anything back.
Zeina Smidi
#18. Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost.
Gudjon Bergmann
#19. Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.
Alex Shoumatoff
#20. I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
Charlie Kaufman
#21. Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.
Donald Hamilton
#22. While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.
John Perry
#23. Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.
Henri Nouwen
#24. As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
Parker J. Palmer
#25. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a "falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person. Though
Irvin D. Yalom
#26. When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make souls that have been turned around to face a given way of being and moving in the world.
Wayne C. Booth
#27. Blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.
Ursula Curtiss
#28. But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.
Julia Alvarez
#29. Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
Franz Kafka
#30. What is important is any amount of breast milk that can be given to the baby is better than none, and breastfeeding is one of the many challenges along the way of being a great mother.
Simko Pharm. D., Lauren
#31. You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.
Terry Bradshaw
#32. The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
Elizabeth Thornton
#33. That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.
Miguel Ruiz
#34. I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#35. Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#36. You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.
David Frost
#37. Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
Alex Noble
#38. God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goals. It is a way of love, a way of the heart.
John Swinton
#39. Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
Alexander Lowen
#40. Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
Lady Randolph Churchill
#41. Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.
Eugene H. Peterson
#42. You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#43. Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it's a way of being present in the moment.
Krishna Das
#44. I think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way of being in the world, so that we can extend our compassionate intelligence and begin to work with a strengthened will and imagination that can take us into the future.
Terry Tempest Williams
#45. A football team represents a way of being, a culture.
Michel Patini
#46. Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
Jose Saramago
#47. A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Jean Giraudoux
#48. Christ is the ground of our masculinity. He took Adamic humanity into the grave with him, and emerged with a new way to be human, and a renewed way of being a man.
Joe Rigney
#49. My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.
Nayvadius Cash
#50. Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.
Mary Louisa Molesworth
#51. Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
Callie Khouri
#52. Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.
Philip Carr-Gomm
#53. Autism does not have a look. Autism cannot be cured by discipline. Autism is not a disease. Autism is a way of being. Autism is a neurological difference. Autism is a unique way of viewing the world.
Tina J. Richardson
#54. There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.
Nelson Algren
#55. I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.
Vint Cerf
#56. For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.
Matthieu Ricard
#57. What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.
Mark Rowlands
#59. Youngish artists have a way of being melancholy. It may be that this is merely a symptom of the distress they feel at the absence of definition. They have no very distinct outline either of themselves or of the abstractions that bedevil them. They are, in short, likely to be a bit baffled.
Wallace Stevens
#60. I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
Christopher Buckley
#61. Is it true that some stories only just manage to be born? Or do these stories always seek their own path into the world and do they always, eventually, find a way of being told?
Benny Lindelauf
#62. Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human; it is just a way of taking responsibility for what one has already been given.
Peter E. Gordon
#63. True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life with a sense of ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace and prayer. We are restful when ordinary life is enough.
Ronald Rolheiser
#64. But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.
Nhat Hanh
#65. Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.
Jarvis Cocker
#66. Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.
David R. Hawkins
#67. I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.
Gloria Steinem
#68. The ecological situation is not a problem to be solved, but a wake-up call to a different way of being and relating.
Pat MacEnulty
#69. Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
Henri Nouwen
#70. Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
Marquis De Sade
#71. What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.
Jay Parini
#72. Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.
Adi Da
#73. If you're calling her a floozy, I'm by way of being a bit of a floozy myself." "Oh, Jared," said Kami, who was well aware of his romantic experience, or total lack thereof. "You are not." "Well, I have floozy ambitions.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#74. Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
Paul Auster
#75. You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.
David Markson
#76. Today, we think that each person must find his or her own way of being spiritual, something that is comfortable to that person; each spirituality is particular to each person.
David F. Wells
#77. Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
Bill Crawford
#78. Having money is a way of being free of money
Albert Camus
#80. This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.
Noah Cicero
#81. Like everything else in my past he was part of the story that had led us to each other; it's a way of being in love, I think, to see the past like that.
Garth Greenwell
#83. True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.
Alberto Villoldo
#84. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.
Gloria Steinem
#85. Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#86. I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.
Terry Tempest Williams
#87. Pastor-theologians exist to embody the evangelical mood, an indicative declaration ("He is risen! He is Lord!") and a concomitant way of being that is attuned to the world as already-not-yet made new in Jesus Christ.
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
#88. External reality has a way of being not so external after all.
John Steinbeck
#89. To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.
Rhonda Byrne
#90. Happiness can't be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world - a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.
Matthieu Ricard
#91. Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.
Joe Biden
#92. LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity.
Other desires are substitutes
for that way of being.
Rumi
#93. Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.
Jerry Brown
#94. Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.
Henry Miller
#95. The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
Stanislav Grof
#96. Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Charles Bukowski
#97. My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
Jacques Delors
#98. Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down ... go down swinging, singing, and loving.
Butch Walker
#99. The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.
Michel De Certeau
#100. God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.
J.R. Ward
