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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't a writer/director, I would be an investigative journalist. There's something about being an undercover journalist. I mean, that's freakin' cool!
- Nov 07, 2020
Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020