Quotes About Becoming

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched its whole magnificence for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sun light, and set out to become what I became.

I had seen my becoming a vampire in two lights: The first light was simply enchantment... But the other light was my wish for self-destruction.

none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.

Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories—stories that resonate and spread.

There are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they're not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

The environmental crisis is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind and spirit. There could be no greater misconception of its meaning than to believe it to be concerned only with endangered wildlife, human-made ugliness, and pollution. These are part of it, but, more importantly, the crisis is concerned with the kind of creatures we are and what we must become in order to survive. —Lynton K. Caldwell

if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...

Reality turns out to have a dual nature. Yes, Socrates said, the world is one of constant change and flux: as Heraclitus said, that's the visible world around us. In Socrates's and Plato's terms, it's the world of Becoming. But there is also a realm of Permanence that Parmenides described, a higher reality that we grasp not through our senses, but through our reason alone. This is the world

If you consider poetry in all its fire of human becoming, at the summit of an inspiration which delivers the new world to us, what can be the use of a biography which tells us the past, the heavy past of the poet?

I think Rachel Maddow has done a brilliant job in becoming more and more independent. And I think she does a fantastic progressive show, and she did it by accruing power, by getting better and better ratings.

First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.

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.

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until I became that person. Or he became me.' In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small.

If we decide to think, feel, and act as the kind of person we want to be, we will become that person. We won't just be behaving "like" that person; we will be that person.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you . Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

Ženama se ne ra?amo, nego postajemo

Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.

Moreover, humanity is something other than a species: it is an historical becoming; it is defined by the way it assumes natural facticity.

I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.