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Quotes About Becoming

un fapt psihologic oarecare nu poate fi niciodat? explicat total prin cauzalitatea lui; el este un fenomen viu, legat indestructibil de continuitatea procesului vital, în aÈ™a fel încât este, pe de-o parte, întotdeauna un ce care a devenit, pe de alta, un ce în curs de devenire, un ce creator.
~ C.G. Jung
They are unchanging, because they have utterly become themselves and will never be otherwise.
~ Genevieve Cogman
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I must have been changing though, and becoming, though I didn't know it, what I am now. I can't have become all this, and there's really a lot of it, in a few days, can I?
~ Iris Murdoch
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
She was oozing backwards into the tree. Her bones were going to mate with the grain of the wood. I am becoming part of the forest.
~ Susan Rowland
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realising — not in believing, but in being and becoming.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
~ Helena Blavatsky
She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired virtues that were easy to maintain; assigned herself a role in the scheme of things; and harked back to simpler times for gratification.
~ Toni Morrison
Because of technology everything we make is always in the process of becoming. Every kind of thing is becoming something else, while it churns from "might" to "is." All is flux. Nothing is finished. Nothing is done. This never-ending change is the pivotal axis of the modern world.
~ Kevin Kelly
This wide, fast-moving system of technology bends the culture subtly, but steadily, so it amplifies the following forces: Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.
~ Kevin Kelly
The problem with constant becoming (especially in a protopian crawl) is that unceasing change can blind us to its incremental changes. In constant motion we no longer notice the motion. Becoming is thus a self-cloaking action often seen only in retrospect. More
~ Kevin Kelly
Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. It is a process. In the protopian mode, things are better today than they were yesterday, although only a little better. It is incremental improvement or mild progress.
~ Kevin Kelly
In the intangible digital realm, nothing is static or fixed. Everything is becoming. Upon this relentless change all the disruptions of modernity ride.
~ Kevin Kelly
Ours was a city on fire with becoming, the suburbs reaching farther from the core by the week.
~ Kim Cooper
It's wrong for a state to turn its people into monsters, even to secure ourselves, bacause we draw the line at becoming what we behold
~ Kirsten Beyer
Here's the bottom line: God is in the people business. More than anything He wants us to become like His Son, Jesus. To do this He will love us, bless us, discipline us, and develop us by the power of His Holy Spirit so that we become all He wants us to be.
~ Kregg Hood
We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being.
~ Carlo Rovelli
The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming.
~ Carlo Rovelli
This is a universe of infinite possibilities. It really doesn't matter when you begin your journey, only which path you decide to take. If you make the changes, you will become the change in your own life.
~ Carolyn Boyes
When you come to the realization that the totality of yourself, what you have treasured, what your friends have admired, is totally useless, you will suffer, but we say, that it is only from this point that there is any hope for your becoming. We are so incredibly small, mere specks in our whole solar system.
~ George Gurdjieff
The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
Still more. When I was three, and four, and five years of age, I was not yet I. I was a mere becoming, a flux of spirit not yet cooled solid in the mold of my particular flesh and time and place. In that period all that I had ever been in ten thousand lives before strove in me, and troubled the flux of me, in the effort to incorporate itself in me and become me.
~ Jack London