The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.
Iām totally cool being self-deprecating.
My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.
Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one's true self.
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.
Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.
Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.
When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Being a woman is an option, being trans is an option, and they're options that appeal to me. We need to listen to people - not labels, not semantics.
I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.
I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.
