#being

Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them. ↗

— Luce Irigaray

#flowers #irigaray #love #luce-irigaray #mutuality

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#country #easy #lawful #obvious #state

The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#been #being #born #children #considered

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being. ↗

— James Belushi

#celebrities #chicago #democratic #general #human

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#self-determination #being

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#being

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#being

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. ↗

— Jules Verne

#reading #being

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#being

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#loss #yearning #being