Becoming Quotes

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

As it develops, then, the concept of social space becomes broader. It infiltrates, even invades, the concept of production, becoming part - perhaps the essential part - of its content.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

Becoming is superior to being.

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Are you becoming what you've always hated?

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.

Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day.

My worry is that the world is becoming more chaotic every day. My excitement is that more people paying attention to 'Less but better' could help solve our growing problems.

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

We are all in the process of becoming.

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.

Life is not about having and getting. It's about being and becoming.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.