#being

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#being #bold #favor #fortune #gift

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#being #country #country music #doing #enjoy

My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#back #be happy #became #before #being

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#being #characters #every #give #him

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#being #better #comforted #existence #gentle

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#circumstances #constantly #difficult #difficult people #making

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#born-again #christian #failure #human #human being

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing. ↗

— James Broughton

#being #die #everything #free #good

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#being #development #graveyard #haiti #people

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. ↗

— James Broughton

#being #books #farther #hundred #nourished