Being There Quotes

• Presence is more than just being there.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Funny Relationship, Parenting, Focus

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• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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• God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

  Billy Graham

  Happiness, Dog, Believe

  "Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Pretty Sure This One Did" by Cathleen Falsani, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pain, Compassion, Share

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

  Amy Grant

  Crazy, People, Needs

  "Singer-songwriter Amy Grant". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 17, 2013.

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• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sympathy

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• From every human being there rises a light.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Light, Humans, Human Beings

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• Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

  William Stafford

  Memories, Buckets, Just Being

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.98, Macmillan

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• In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Territory, Birth

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• I believe my most important job is being there when you need help.

  Doug La Follette

  Jobs, Believe, Important

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• To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Intelligent, Past, Perception

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.15, Wizards of the Coast

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• Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.

  Louise Hay

  Life, Motivational, Gratitude

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 23, 2011

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• Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

  Mike Huckabee

  Treasure, Humans, Human Beings

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• Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Knowing, Important

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.178, Shambhala Publications

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• Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Lord, Careless

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• If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But if we can't - if we are in church and a hymn catches us off guard, or at a football game and we remember being there with a son or daughter now gone - well, the earth is our home and we can cry where we want.

  Martha Whitmore Hickman

  Daughter, Football, Home

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• He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Done, Just Being, Enough

  Anthony Horowitz (2012). “The Gatekeepers #2: Evil Star”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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• When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Appreciation, Self, Soul

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2016

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• The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

  Joe Swanberg

  Hate, People, Invites

  Source: collider.com

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• A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

  Bill Crawford

  Wise, Forever, Action

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• That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Moments, Capable

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• You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Running, Hate, Sleep

  Jonathan Tropper (2005). “Everything Changes”, p.20, Bantam

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• For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

  Vivian Gornick

  Past, Transformation, Integrated

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There

  Femi Fani-Kayode

  Confused, Clueless, Character

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