B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.”
“Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world.”
“Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.”
“Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second generation Irish or even with no connection to Ireland, you should visit in 2013 for a unique experience.”
“Being Irish, he was also possessed of a certain lethal charm, a ruined estate somewhere back in Ireland, and eyes the color of Lady Winnimere's world-famous emeralds. Add to that an almost sinful beauty of face framed by black curls, a tall, graceful body, and quite the most elegant hands in all of London, and Killoran, who disdained to use his title, was indeed a dangerously attractive member of society.”
Source: To Love a Dark Lord
“Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.”
“Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.”
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
Source: Mrs. October was Here
“Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.”
“Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.”
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“Being is an issue for one.”
“Being is beauty.”
“Being is belonging, attachment is advancement.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Being is born of not being.”
Source: 道德经
“Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities in your life are secondary. What is Primary is Being.”
“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)
“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
“Being is Dying by Loving.”
Source: The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development
“Being is finite, and only something “nonexistent” can offer infinity to the finitude of the Being. Being and Nonbeing are the alpha and omega of existence. They negate each other and support each other. They fight with each other and make love to each other. The result is a Living Being, a Living World. The lack of one is the death of the other. Without the absoluteness of nothingness, there is no absoluteness of the Being. The absoluteness of one is equal to the absoluteness of the other. The Being and Nonbeing, without the World or plurality, become one, and this Oneness is the negation of both or the transformation of both into nothingness without the attribute of absoluteness (the Nothing cannot be anything else except nothing).”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.”
“Being is like pretending.”
“Being is not full transcendence. We learn about ourselves by discovering our imperfections. Experience corrupts any romantic notions that we ever held of achieving perfection. We must live with our limitations and our imperfections. We must cherish the blemishes in people who we love.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.”
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.”
Source: The Heroine's Journey
“Being is only Being for Dasein.”
“Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.”
“Being is seeing in the human dimension.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Being is so significant that it is irreplaceable. You are just yourself. Do something that comes out of you - not to assert, but to express! Sing your song, dance your dance, rejoice in being whatever nature has chosen you to be.”
“Being is the basis of thinking, thinking is the basis of action, action is the basis of achievement and achievement is the basis of fulfillment.”
“Being is the innate human, mind the cause of the evolutionary disorder.”
“Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.”
“Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?”
“Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.”
Source: Who is Man?
“Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.”
“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”
“Being jealous does nothing. It turns you into a person who’s unable to feel genuine happiness, and tarnishes every accomplishment when it’s used to measure your sense of worth on a made-up scale. You hear about a friend’s promotion (in an industry that probably isn’t yours) and feel like you will never venture past your existing achievements. You hear someone from high school is getting married and assume that you never will. You discover the guy you worked retail with in 2006 has a new apartment, and you sit wherever you happen to live and actively resent the space you loved five minutes ago. And feelings like will always come up; it’s just up to you to say “fuck off.”
So, while I’d like to say you should just decide not to be jealous, and that we’re all in this together so let’s remember that and be best friends, I know that isn’t realistic because jealousy is immune to reason and logic…If I feel myself slipping into a jealousy wormhole when I see someone else shining, I remember that to gauge my self-worth based on someone else’s accomplishments is a one-way ticket to bitterness.”
Source: Nobody Cares
“Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.”
“Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Being Jesus means that we go through life embracing it all fully and feeling it all deeply. That we don’t hide and try to protect ourselves. That we live. That we show up. That we laugh. That we cry. That we hurt. That we heal. That we care. That we love. And then, that we wake up the next morning and sign up for it all over again.”
Source: Being Jesus in Nashville: Finding the Courage to Live Your Life (Whoever and Wherever You Are)
“Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.”
“Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he didn't make some money at chess, I could see him becoming a street person, shaking his fists at cars as they passed by his corner of the block. Isn't it preferable to have him in a self-sufficient position rather than as a liability of the state?”
“Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.”
“Being jobless is not a reason to end a life. In my opinion, no reason is worth to end your life.”
Source: VIKAS 2.7: Rebooting Development
“Being joyful is a choice.”
“Being joyful is about staying positive when everything else seems to fail.”
“Being joyful is our natural state of being.”
“Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.”
“Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.”
Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
“Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.”