Becoming Quotes

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.

Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

dont let anyone tell you what you are ever- that way you never run the danger of becoming anything but what you believe in.

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.

When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

It is a kind of self-projection of our sins when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to become good, but because we are unable to, we demand it of others and insist on this.

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.