Quotes about Being
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.
- Milan Kundera
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain. ? Milan Kundera, Immortality (Gardners Books; 1st edition, July 31, 2000) Originally published January 12th 1990.
- Milan Kundera
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.
- Brother Lawrence
To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
What is happening in the present moment is life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Start where you are. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
- Bruce Lee
Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.
- Herman Melville