Tag Archives: being

Being Yourself

Posted on February 28, 2019 by hernibs

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else… means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings

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Just Being Happy

Posted on August 22, 2018 by hernibs

Happily ever after was a fairy tale I so much wanted to live in. But now happy is in spite of what I don’t like, overlooking what I can’t change, making do with what I have, not hoping for more. … Continue reading →

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AS IF

Posted on July 21, 2018 by hernibs

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. ~ Johann W. Von Goethe

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Be You

Posted on April 27, 2018 by hernibs

Whatever you are, be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln

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Just Be

Posted on September 22, 2017 by hernibs

Why not stop thinking, caring, dreaming, hoping. Why not just be. Wake, eat, sleep, walk. Live each minute as it is. No need to interpret, plan, scheme, change, manipulate. No need for it to be any different than it is. … Continue reading →

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Being Before Doing

Posted on January 12, 2017 by hernibs

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is in reverse. You … Continue reading →

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Being Where You Want To Be

Posted on July 29, 2016 by hernibs

You’ll never leave where you are, until you decide where you’d rather be. ~Robert Brockman

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What I Think I Am

Posted on May 28, 2016 by hernibs

Not what I do, not what I say Not what I wish, nor how I pray It’s what I think that makes me what I am, It’s what I think I am. Not what I wear, nor how I walk … Continue reading →

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Being Present

Posted on February 10, 2015 by hernibs

It’s raining out so I sit on the old green bent rocker on my studio porch. A symphony of raindrops splash off metal roof, cedar branches, maple leaves and dirt path. Raven’s deep call in the distance, tree frog seems … Continue reading →

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