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Exlpore more Being quotes
"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
Explore more quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship."
"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
"There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course."
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
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