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Quotes About Becoming

Becoming a shaman is a fate that can strike anyone. Even you.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
And so: change. The inexorable emergence of difference in time. Becoming. One of the fundamental mysteries. Charlie hated it. He liked being; he hated becoming.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Vi andre blir til det lille vi blir fordi er så almindelige. Han er fra et grænseland som er ukjendt for os.
~ Knut Hamsun
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Life is not about control. It's not about getting. It's not about having. It's not about knowing. It's not even about being. Life is eternal, perpetual becoming, or it is nothing. Becoming is not a thing to be known, commanded, or controlled. It is a magnificent, mysterious odyssey to be experienced.
~ Dee Hock
I'm a process" sounds strange to most people, but let's examine the science that supports this answer.
~ Deepak Chopra
Always becoming, never arriving. Life is at a standstill - only ideas flash past. In such confusion I find myself running after them: Hey! Stop! Stop! But they escape, leaving me staring at a grey English spring.
~ Derek Jarman
becoming the fine, upstanding law-enforcement official you see before you with gravy dripping down his chin.
~ Derek Landy
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
~ Myrna Loy
Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.
~ Jackson Browne
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Having been a fan of 'Dragons' Den' since it first aired in 2005 I was absolutely delighted and proud to have the opportunity of becoming a Dragon myself.
~ Sara Davies
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.
~ Robert Cecil
the track of Quality preselects what data we're going to be conscious of, and it makes this selection in such a way as to best harmonize what we are with what we are becoming.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
~ Rajneesh
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
~ Ernst Haeckel
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
~ Murray Bookchin
The most developed science remains a continual becoming
~ Jean Piaget
To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.
~ James Gleick
It is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning -- but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
In other words, it is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning ? but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things. Love is akin to transcendence; it is but another name for creative drive and as such is fraught with risks, as all creation is never sure where it is going to end.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
journey from knowing to becoming is the journey of transformation from Ravana to Ram.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
She was not born, but rather became, Jane Austen.
~ Devoney Looser
The nature and purpose of Xeper is hidden in the myth of the contendings of Set and Horus. In the Temple there are two views of Xeper. One is the Nietzschian view that Xeper is the process of becoming who you are. That is to say, becoming reflects being. The second view is that Xeper is free willed; you can become anything you want to. Neither of these ideas is actually exclusive. Let's see why.
~ Don Webb