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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. (Quote by - James Dean)
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. (Quote by - Plato)
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. (Quote by - Plato)
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
He not busy being born is busy dying. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. (Quote by - John Lennon)
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Man - a being in search of meaning. (Quote by - Plato)