Being There Quotes - Page 10

• Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

  R. K. Milholland

  Friendship, Feelings, Lows

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• Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ocean, Perception, Mind

  Source: home.online.nl

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• As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Long, Stories, Language

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.

  Gift of Gab

  Space, Meditation, Shows

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Greatness, Men, Campaigns

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• I was one of the kids who sold Cokes in the stadium. It was a lot of fun being around that environment, watching games and visualizing being there when I got older.

  Deshaun Watson

  Fun, Kids, Games

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.

  Melody Beattie

  Mother, Alzheimer's, Years

  Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Kids, Oxygen, Care

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• When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Coffee, Opportunity, Thinking

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

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• You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

  Richard Bach

  Son, Light, Numbers

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

  Michael Ende

  Hate, Lying, People

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• One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

  Andre Balazs

  Luxury, Movement, Aspect

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• In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.

  Laurens van der Post

  Children, Believe, Heart

  Laurens Van Der Post (2013). “Feather Fall: An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post”, p.35, Random House

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• Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become. You will not be scrutinized, your actions compared with those of others. Thats just unicorn food. Let your river flow as it pleases. Simply observe and recognise that all is unfolding spontaneously when that inner journalist- the ego, is exposed as a myth.

  Mooji

  Rivers, Ego, Flow

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• In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Essence, May, Dimensions

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.13, New World Library

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• In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

  Paracelsus

  Heaven, Special, Unbroken

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• Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

  Sebastian Coe

  Thinking, Decision, Parent

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• You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

  Arthur Miller

  World, Firsts, Cant

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• Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences.

  Charley Harper

  Spring, Distance, Air

  Charley Harper (1994). “Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper”, Flower Valley Pr

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• Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Children, Crazy, Virgos

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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• Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog.

  Billy Sunday

  Children, Blow, Thinking

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• When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

  Joe Torre

  Dad, School, Home

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• I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.

  Vijender Singh

  Achievement, Facts, Athens

  "I am happy with my preparations: Vijender Singh". Interview, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 29, 2012.

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• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  Lactantius

  Perfect, Suffering, Titles

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.25, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there is an unbroken link between ourselves and the Beloved Mother of the Universe, the Divine Consciousness flowing through and permeating Infinity.

  Daya Mata

  Mother, Self, Soul

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