#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

Buggeration, my arse is bruised beyond relief. ↗

— Arisu Riddle

#funny-formulation #funny

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#creativity #fear-of-failure #life

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

— Alain de Botton

#being-yourself #life #life

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#being quiet #i #just #problem #quiet

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself. ↗

— Holly Valance

#anything #area #being #buy #done

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#age #atomic #being #beings #greatness

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#been #being #biggest #combat #coming

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult. ↗

— Alan Bean

#artist #being #difficult #doing #found

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful. ↗

— Charles Vest

#balanced budget #been #being #budget #close