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Simply Being Quotes & Sayings

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I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are. — Charles R. Swindoll

Rather than simply being subject to them, I had wanted to know what it felt like to be one of the forces in this world. — Joshua Gaylord

The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and will get us nowhere. — Mary Midgley

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too. — Umair Haque

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful. — Dan Wakefield

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion. — Ian McEwan

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. — Louis L'Amour

He said he didn't want to brave yet, and I simply replied with being brave isn't an option in this world. — Shuno

When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget. — Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are. — Amy Dickinson

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. — Sharon Salzberg

I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. — Brad Meltzer

Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over. — Charlotte Joko Beck

Maybe being Jesus is simply seeing people as they truly are. — Jim Palmer

I didn't know what I was doing, didn't know what he was doing to me, but there was no doubt he made my day better by simply being. — Jay Crownover

Being sensitive and kind are admirable pursuits ... and so are knowing when you're being taking advantage of and simply walking away. — Charles F. Glassman

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally. — Michael Cunningham

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. — Michael Korda

Being confident simply means believing that you have what it takes to do the job. — Josh Shipp

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner

A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew. — Gwethalyn Graham

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy. — May Sarton

It wasn't who I had wanted to become, but simply who I was comfortable being. — Wendy Owens

I'm with her simply because I want to be. Because I need to be. Because she needs me, I think, and if I'm being honest, I need her just as much. — J.M. Darhower

Leaning forward, he set out to conquer Miss Henrietta Barrett the same way he'd conquered women across Britain.
Simply by being himself. — Julia Quinn

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work. — Wendell Berry

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. — Walter Abish

vulnerability is neither good nor bad. Rather, being vulnerable simply means you have the capacity to experience emotions. — WiseMinds

Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time. — Frederick Lenz

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. — Ramana Maharshi

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating. — B.C. Forbes

I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened? — Ben Carson

Simply being in a relationship didn't necessarily equate to happiness. — Tessa Bailey

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. — Tom Stoppard

a journey is never simply the act of gaining a new perspective, but also the experience of being newly seen. — Robert Moor

Claude could simply not imagine the couples he met at parties or passed on the street ever being locked in carnal embrace. — Tom Robbins

When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too. — Elliott Chaze

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others. — Roger Babson

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors. — James Sallis

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am. — Eric Maisel

One of the best ways to recharge is by simply being in the presence of art. No thoughts, no critiques. Just full-on absorption mode. — Dean Francis Alfar

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Goodbye is a strange concept - if the person being left behind resents it and refuses to accept it, is it still goodbye, or simply a departure? — Marla Miniano

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on. — Robert Kiyosaki

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth. — Roland Merullo

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do. — Russell Brand

There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being. — Bill McKibben

Don't you feel it, the joy of having an effect on everyone and everything simply by being? — Kristin Cashore

The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists. — Saul Bellow

Who you know yourself to be is simply one way of being that is available to you, and you are not stuck with that way of being. — Werner Erhard

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. — Fran Lebowitz

Wishing that I could stay right here in this moment of not doing, but simply being, forever. — Rachel Harris

For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. — Matthew Arnold

Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself? — John Avery

What makes you happy?"
"This," he said simply. "I like being with you. — Victoria Vane

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other. — Carol Saline

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through? — Simone Weil

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other. — Thomas Lynch

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us! — David Trumble

...simply being alive was not enough to be called living" -Kahlen — Kiera Cass

Vin closed her eyes, simply feeling the warmth of being held. And realized that was all she had ever really wanted. — Brandon Sanderson

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. — Tom Peters

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well. — Anatoly Karpov

I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process. — Frederick Lenz

To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love. — Jaggi Vasudev

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Courage was the beginning, being unafraid, moving ahead, through small hardships, not turning back. Courage was simply a form of moving forward. — Dave Eggers

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic. — Shimon Peres

I trust you, Lord. I'm simply being me again. — Heather Gray

The best way to get a new or better job is simply to commit to being the best at the one you have now. — Andre Marron

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal. — Richard Curtis

Yet some say Love by being thrall
And simply staying possesses all
In several beauty that Thought fares far
To find fused in another star. — Robert Frost

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers. — Jerry Seinfeld

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human — Tim Hansel

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up. — Sandra Brown

We see what a punishing business it is, simply being alive. — Sarah Waters

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. — Christian Morgenstern

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy. — Jasper Carrott

Charm is simply a matter of being yourself. Your uniqueness is your power. — Keith Ferrazzi

but I am quite sure I should have scouted the notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady, with indignation and contempt. — Charles Dickens

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist. — Earl Nightingale

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. — William James

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation. — John Ridley

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change! — Jimmy Swaggart

Most people hate Mondays because most people do not know the incredible beauty of being simply existed in any day whatsoever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. — Charles Olson

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?), — Claire Messud

You can create a harmonious attitude by simply being. — Christopher Dines

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. — Pierre Salinger

it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better. — James Patterson

Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so. — Allen Carr

Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: your life is worth seeing. — Anna Carey