Quotes About Becoming

Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

My guests never predicted nuclear boiling annihilation, otherwise they surely would have posed in more pretty-making fashions, chasing the ever-present ambition to be the most becoming of the dead.

And let us be seated, gentlemen. Drinking standing up, in a rush and without due reverence, does not become the nobility.' They

Hij werd nu wie hij in werkelijkheid was. Septimus Heap.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.

All you have to do is revise your point of view. Instead of trying to achieve perfection, simply relax and enjoy human imperfectability. With that perspective you achieve the ultimate godhead. You see man as infinite possibility always in the process of becoming. You see finally that man, in emulating the creative process, is nothing less than God.

This means that just when we are comfortable, then we find there is Change. But within us, our ego likes security. Security means constancy in existence, in appearance. Constancy is having. But constancy is not in the world of action. Constancy in the world of action is an illusion. The beingness which we seek cannot be found in appearance. This is because the beingness is in the becoming. The becoming is the essence for it is the pathway toward God.

Although he had read that Pittsburgh was becoming an in-demand moviemaking town.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.

A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Plato seems to have made the enormous, the grotesque mistake of separating Being from becoming and identifying it with the mathematical abstraction of the Idea. He could never, poor fellow, have seen a bunch of flowers shining with their own inner light and all but quivering under the pressure of the significance with which they were charged; could never have perceived that what rose and iris and carnation so intensely signified was nothing more, and nothing less, than what they were.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." —John Ruskin, English Poet, Art Critic

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

You must not fret. There is no arriving, ever. It is all a continual becoming.

She was no longer who she used to be, and she wasn't yet whoever she was becoming.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on. Use your time to bathe yourself in that gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession… What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

The great theme we all share is that of becoming ourselves, of overcoming our father and mother, of assuming our identities somehow.