Being proverbs

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◆ 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. Rainey98

◆ You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.

- Italo Calvino98

◆ It's important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has called us to do, we are presented with the options of either conforming and giving in, or standing our ground and becoming stronger in who God has made us to be

- Gabriel Wilson98

◆ Are you doing life or are you living?

- Dale Forehand98

◆ If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott98

◆ For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

- George Eliot98

◆ A positive needs a negative to complete its cycle, as the Moon needs an embodiment of itself, the Sun, to complete the cycle of its illusory essence, the Earth. Now if the earth is in dire straits, is bombing the moon to discover whether water is ‘perceived' in the natural stance of humans an intelligent move?

- AainaA-Ridtz98

◆ It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!

- AainaA-Ridtz98

◆ Je suis partout où je suis.

- Nicole Brossard98

◆ What you believe matters, however. It's all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don't believe anything is true simply because you can't logically prove what's true, you won't do anything. You won't be anything. You'll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It's an old philosophical problem.

- Russell Banks98

◆ Every form is an image. Every image is a name. Every name is an attribute, every attribute a verb. Every verb forms the sentence to be read on Judgement Day, from the very Qur'aanulQariim that is found within the breastplate of all that is ‘created' in the form of humankind. Every object be it animated or non-animated is an image!!

- AainaA-Ridtz98

◆ On peut faire la grève tout, sauf d'être.

- Alain Finkielkraut98

◆ When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

- Bryant McGill98

◆ Je tiens à mon imperfection comme à ma raison d'être.

- Anatole France98

◆ This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of man; we seem to be transported into a world different from that which gave us birth.

- Alexander Humboldt98