To Be Quotes

“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Nature's God

“Eureka" can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen idea or the expression of a magic moment that throws us into a new world. It acts like a radiant sunbeam that comes out of the blue and illuminates a dim past, opening a new, dynamic horizon. It may even be a trivial but lucky encounter with new friends, who let us be what we are in our imagination: original and undifferentiated. (“Waiting for Eureka” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a blank and void existence, which is linked to wrecking ennui. Boredom often slips into revulsion and nausea, for not being able to find an identity and not succeeding in acquiring individuality with the quality of authenticity. ("Like a frozen image")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Let us people 'be' as they are, authentic, floundering on the flow of rippling moments, simmering in their juice. Why should we expect them to build up a house of cards crumbling down behind a curtain of appearances? Why keep bending backward every time, suffering unbearable torments and distressful heartbeats? Why inflame people to focus on cringy living standards with a hell's race of illusions? - Erik Pevernagie”
― Erik Pevernagie, The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

“To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

“What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“The less you know, the more you will be known
The less you want, the more you will have
The less you are, the more you will be”
― Vivian Amis, I AM: The Key to Manifesting

“Human is what he decides to be.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

“Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Smartass Disciple: My master, please show me how to be a wise man!
Master of Stupidity: I can't. But I can show you how to do something wisely.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Summer loves, like summer breezes, are never as hot or long as they pretend to be”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“The more frugal I am forced to be the more resourceful I become.”
― Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts

“Not everyone has the time to be normal.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Forget your to-do list and create a to-be list.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _to do_. Action _may_ be hypocrisy, but being is the thing itself, and is the parent of action.”
― George MacDonald, Mary Marston

“To be is to be perceived.” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
– Bishop George Berkeley

To be is to be perceived, executes contradictions in its context of various insights. To be is to exist and present; otherwise, it is only a perception, and it exists not; it never to be when it occurs; it results not in anymore as a perception; it becomes a reality. Thus, to be is neither perception, nor it is to be until its physical visibility. As an exemplification that, a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear the sound; it sounds logical impact and fact; however, not the perception.
- Ehsan Sehgal”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call 'human nature,' the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“For the world to change for the better, it has to be MADE better. It won’t happen by itself.”
― Christina Engela, Pearls Before Swine

“To be is to be perceived.” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
– Bishop George Berkeley
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To be is to be perceived; executes contradictions in the context of various insights. To be is to exist and present; otherwise, it is only a perception, and it exists not; it never to be when it occurs; it results not in anymore as a perception; it becomes a reality. Thus, to be is neither perception nor is to be until its physical visibility. As an exemplification that a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear the sound; it sounds logical impact and fact; however, not the perception
- Ehsan Sehgal”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“To be is to be perceived; executes contradictions in the context of various insights. To be is to exist and present; otherwise, it is only a perception, and it exists not; it never to be when it occurs; it results not in anymore as a perception; it becomes a reality. Thus, to be is neither perception nor is to be until its physical visibility. As an exemplification that a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear the sound; it sounds logical impact and fact; however, not the perception”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“To be, or to be so much more!”
― Steven Magee

“The Ukraine war is just a big waste of USA taxpayers money that is causing the social security system to be increasingly defunded.”
― Steven Magee

“I chose a path to be set apart.
Now I am a poet, just to be someone.”
― Zaineb Afzal, Spare Change

“IN THE EYES OF MANY, I'M A NOBODY,
IT TAKES A BLESSING FROM GOD IN ORDER FOR THIS WORLD TO SHOW ME
FAKE LOVE.
Don't let this go over your head"
-MillYentei”
― Deshawn Yeldell

“To be just. Exactly how we’re supposed to be is how I’d like to be.”
― Dominic Riccitello