Just Being There Quotes

• Presence is more than just being there.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Funny Relationship, Parenting, Focus

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• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Friendship, Letting Go

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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Gloria Naylor

  Friendship, Letting Go, Art

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.56, Penguin

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• Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

  Joy Browne

  Inspirational, Women, Self Esteem

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• And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Fall, What Matters, Ninety Nine

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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• He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Done, Just Being, Being There

  Anthony Horowitz (2012). “The Gatekeepers #2: Evil Star”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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• I like being what the girls call MOD-"my other Dad." What I've learned in the past year is that every kid is different. But as long as you love them and never forget that love, then you have the key. I think it's all about just being there and loving them because kids feel that every single day.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Girl, Daughter, Dad

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• We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

  Olaus Murie

  Country, Inspiration, Writing

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• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  Frances Conroy

  Letting Go, Character, Just Being

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

  William Stafford

  Memories, Buckets, Just Being

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

  Ludacris

  Trying, Just Being, Being There

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• One thing that happens often times in family life is that people think maybe the challenge you are having with a child when they are a teenager or even in adolescence that this is going to go on forever and it doesn't. They get to their 20s, they change dramatically in their 20s. So sometimes it's just holding on for the ride, and just being there and holding on for the ride.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Teenager, Thinking

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