Being quotes

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

William Shakespeare

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Jeanne Moreau

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Buddha

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

H. G. Bohn

Whoever blushes is already guilty, true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Austin Dobson

Telling lies is a fault in a boy an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor and second nature in a married woman.

Helen Rowland

You're just jealous because the voices talk only to me.

Emo Philips

If you're not being challenged, you're not getting any better.

Bart Brooks

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die.
You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts of life that apply to every human being on this planet.

William Boyd

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Beatrice Arthur

Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you!

Carol Connelly

It doesn't matter what size or shape you are. Burlesque is about feeling positive about who you are, about knowing how to shake what you have and being proud of it.

Baby Doe

Being solitary is being alone well:
being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Alice Koller

Be what you would seem to be.

Aeschylus

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

Avery Brooks

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Bayard Rustin

Every human being makes mistakes.

Ian Smith

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it.

Barbra Streisand

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

Henny Youngman

Human beings are 70 per cent water and with some all the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Heinrich Heine

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Octavio Paz

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

George Jessel

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

P. D. James

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed.
I have no doubt, but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

Virginia Woolf

It is up to you to prove that human beings do not have to be prowling wolves or sly lynxes, but can be rational, just, and kindly members of a commonwealth.

Upton Sinclair

We are all murderers and prostitutes, no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

R. D. Laing

I think, therefor I am.
Cogito, ergo sum.

René Descartes

Talk about it only enough to do it.
Dream about it only enough to feel it.
Think about it only enough to understand it.
Contemplate it only enough to be it.

Jean Toomer