Being Quotes & Sayings

Being Quotes & Sayings

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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. - William James 'Will' Durant



How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become, to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery



Beware how you take away hope from any human being. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. - Charles Dudley Warner



So as long as a person is capable of self-renewal, they are a living being. - Henri Matisse



Order is a great person's need and their true well being. - Henri Frederic Amiel



All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectually, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly. Intellectual force is a principal element of the soul's life, and should be proposed by every man as the principal end of his being. - William Ellery Channing



The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. - Thomas Carlyle



God has many names, though He is only one Being. - Aristotle