"To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation."

Being, Creation, Present

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"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."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

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"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."

Margaret Thatcher, English Leader

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"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."

John Updike, American Novelist

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"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."

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

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

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."

"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."

"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."

"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."

"If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race."

"Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking."

"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."

"A great man is the man who does something for the first time."