- Cool
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my bro, but not always being with him is good for us.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
- Foreground
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020