Quotes About Becoming

The self is...a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on.

Such tasks are always the obstacles to becoming, to being set free, or finding love. Carrying out the tasks undoes the curse. Enchantment in these stories is the state of being disguised, displaced in an animal's body or another's identity. Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself.

All Woolf's work as I know it constitutes a sort of Ovidian metamorphosis where the freedom sought is the freedom to continue becoming, exploring, wandering, going beyond. She is an escape artist. In

Even decay is a form of transformation into other living things, part of the great rampage of becoming that is also unbecoming.

Desire has no particular object. It is a vector. Its object is before it, always to come. Desire vectorizes being toward the emergence of the new. Desire is one with the auto-conducting movement of becoming.

We do not obtain knowledge by standing outside of the world; we know because we are of the world. We are part of the world in its differential becoming

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

What you believe and hold close to your heart, you will become.

But the frontier in this meaning was a process of becoming, not of being, and hence substituted motion for structure as its end. Motion as a substitute for structure is possible only so long as there is unlimited room to move in. When confined without the discipline provided by an ideal, such social motion produces aimlessness or chaos—or perhaps the final ordering of some utopia.

La realidad externa es una realidad, pero nada más que superficial; en un nivel más profundo la verdad es que todo el universo, animado o inanimado, es un estado constante de devenir, de surgir y desaparecer. Cada uno de nosotros es, de hecho, una corriente de partículas subatómicas en cambio constante, junto a las cuales los procesos de consciencia, percepción, sensación y reacción cambian todavía más rápidamente que el proceso físico.

He must recruit others like him—those willing to hunt the Legion by becoming what they hated most.

if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and – who knows – perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

He made you you - on purpose. You are the only you - ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves.

As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

You shall become the person you are.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.