Becoming Quotes - Page 19

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs

Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something in, depending on how you look at it.

What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case. But to see the celebration that is already happening at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming, you will have to understand the futility of becoming.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

Every thought, emotion, and action is a statement about who we are, and who we are becoming. Why not make this statement 'On Purpose'?

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Satan wants anxiety to hinder us from becoming effective servants of Christ.

I am scared of becoming a mother.

Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated.