Quotes of: Becoming Keyword

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Dune Messiah

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

Diary of a Pilgrimage

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

Drown

You can become even a co-creator of this universe... an assurance coming from the Ancient Wisdom; provided you bear an appropriate WILL...

Destiny Re scripted

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

A Death in Vienna

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Divergent

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

Dandelion Wine

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

The Eternity Cure

We are forever becoming! We never arrive, as long as we are on this side of Heaven there is more to learn.

The Enchanting Legends Of Shiloh Mansion: The Young King

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Education and the Significance of Life

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.

Emphyrio

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

The End

Why do I feel like this is our destiny. There must be a reason why we have become our characters.

Escape from Netherworld

Modern society becomes more and more complex by the day. What used to be traditional isn’t necessarily traditional anymore.

An Evolving Society

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

The Elephant Tree

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Flaubert's Parrot