#being

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work. ↗

— André Breton

#fuck-work #life #nadja #surrealism #work

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#being-yourself #life #life

By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#doing #human #life

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time. ↗

— Keri Russell

#being #everyone #i #i do #like

Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going. ↗

— Deborah Day

#happiness #happy #purpose #well-being #life

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride. ↗

— Munia Khan

#livingbeing #pride #vanity #life

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. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#accepted #against #beings #between #closest

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real. ↗

— Margery Williams

#being #child #childhood #love #meaning

Do you love her?' she asked him. 'Always have,' he said. 'Then why in the world would you leave her alone? ↗

— Suzanne Palmieri-Hayes

#love #questions #staying #love

The love game is never called off on account of darkness ↗

— Thomas L. Masson

#love