Being Quotes and Proverbs

Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Doris Mortman
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Coco Chanel
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Thomas Merton
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.

Diana Rankin
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Addison Walker
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Ken Burns
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.