Been Quotes

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider
the gifts you have been given,
the difference you have made
and the direction in which you are headed.
- Anonymous

Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)

When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield

I accept everything that ever has been,
with no regrets, no resentments, and no call for vengeance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner

What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain

I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung

Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour

To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have compassion for everyone who has ever
been a player upon the stage of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness
with which one must look and listen,
record in astonishment
and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
- Margaret Mead

On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin

Like a Butterfly, I have been Reborn
with Bold Colors and Strong Wings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The highest thinkers of the ages,
the seers of the tribes and the nations,
have been optimists.
- Helen Keller

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound -
so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

While I thought that I was learning how to live,
I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci

A husband is what is left of a lover,
after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did
not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
- Bill Toomey

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
- Lester B. Pearson

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary,
although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

I have been through various fitness regimes.
I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
- Sting

Life is a series of collisions with the future;
it is not the sum of what we have been,
but what we yearn to be.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- Orison Swett Marden

There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
That's the answer.
- Gertrude Stein

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific
work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to
the gates of the temple of science are written the words:
'Ye must have faith.'
- Max Planck

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
- Annette Funicello

A good painting to me has always been like a friend.
It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
- Hedy Lamarr

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease.
What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
- Ashley Montagu

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty,
even one's own even more, one's own,
for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
- Katherine Anne Porter

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome.
No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
- Andre Gide

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't
recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
- Denis Waitley

My path has not been determined.
I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
- Agnetha Faltskog

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
- Henny Youngman

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until
we have been stuck, incapacitated,
or blown off course for awhile.
- David Whyte

For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth
with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been
and there you will long to return.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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