"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."

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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Being, Birds, May, State

"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

Alan Shepard, American Astronaut

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Being, World

"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Being, Cause, Class, Friends

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Being, May, Present, Sight

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Being, Dying

"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Being, Day

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Being, Right

"Being is more important than doing."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Being, Man, Woman

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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."

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"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."

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"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."

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"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt."

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"Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

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"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."

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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."

"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"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."

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"Being is more important than doing."

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

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"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."

"Boredom is rage spread thin."

"If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song."

"Astonishment is the root of philosophy."

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."

"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."

"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."

"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt."

"Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."