Becoming Quotes - Page 13

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

`Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with the whole. And to melt and merge with the whole is to be holy. Not by fasting, not by torturing, but by becoming one with the whole, one becomes holy.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

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

Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.

People need to start becoming more aware of what's going on and doing something to fix it.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.