- Not Knowing
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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
- Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
- Heterosexuality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colliers International is committed to being a market leader in all major U.S. markets as well as key financial centers around the world.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020