Being hot never hurts!
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I’d say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I’ve seen.
Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, ‘Am I having fun?’
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
People think because I’m a nice person I’m a weak person. But I don’t think being nice means you don’t know how to take tough decisions.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.
The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.
Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I’m totally fine with that being me.
I just miss – I miss being anonymous.
I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn’t ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
Everything I do, I do it being myself.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don’t want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.
I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different.
People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
I’m a little lavish I must admit. But I’m not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don’t have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.
Being a chef would be too much hard work.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
Everybody has an idea of the tsunami of being a big wave. It is not a big wave. It is a huge amount of water that comes to land.
Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, ‘Step from under the eaves and you’re a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.’ This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
