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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• God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

  Billy Graham

  Happiness, Dog, Believe

  "Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Pretty Sure This One Did" by Cathleen Falsani, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pain, Compassion, Share

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I believe my most important job is being there when you need help.

  Doug La Follette

  Jobs, Believe, Important

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• People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

  Amy Grant

  Crazy, People, Needs

  "Singer-songwriter Amy Grant". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 17, 2013.

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• From every human being there rises a light.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Light, Humans, Human Beings

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• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sympathy

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• In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Territory, Birth

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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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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• Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Knowing, Important

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.178, Shambhala Publications

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• If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But if we can't - if we are in church and a hymn catches us off guard, or at a football game and we remember being there with a son or daughter now gone - well, the earth is our home and we can cry where we want.

  Martha Whitmore Hickman

  Daughter, Football, Home

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• Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.

  Louise Hay

  Life, Motivational, Gratitude

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 23, 2011

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

  Anthony Horowitz

  Done, Just Being, Enough

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

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• When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Appreciation, Self, Soul

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2016

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• Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Lord, Careless

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• A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Home, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• The Sanskrit word namaste means 'The spirit in me honors the spirit in you.' Whenever you first make eye contact with another person, say 'Namaste' silently to yourself. This is a way of acknowledging that the being there is the same as the being here.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Eye, Honor

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• To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, Heaven, Dying

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• Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

  Alan Watts

  Truth, Lying, Heart

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.38, New World Library

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• I attribute that to the generosity of people that are in the entertainment business because they are all struggling. All roads seem to come to acting, for certain kinds of people that have a reason for being there. They want to be seen and heard, but there's more to it than that. There's a kindred spirit of struggling to find out, "What is this thing? What are we?" It's those eternal questions. But, in the meanwhile, I've met some wonderful people doing this.

  Lance Henriksen

  Struggle, People, Generosity

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• To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Intelligent, Past, Perception

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.15, Wizards of the Coast

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• I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Cities, Life Is Hard

  Source: collider.com

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• I finally understood: In order to contribute to Africa, I would have to know myself better and be clearer about my goals. I would have to be ready to take Africa on its own terms, not mine, and to learn my limits and present myself not as a do-gooder with a big heart, but as someone with something to give and gain by being there. Compassion wasn't enough

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Heart, Compassion, Order

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.23, HarperCollins Publishers

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