Quotes of: Becoming Keyword

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

The Art of Acting

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

The Art of Fielding

A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past," he said.

Aries Fire

If you don't feel loved maybe the outward trappings like weddings and wedding rings become important? (Page 567)

Affliction

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn’t a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.

The Address Of Happiness

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.

America And The Young Intellectual

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Anna Karenina

The more we accept the imperfections of life, the more perfect life seems to become.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

In the long run, what people think about sheperds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.

The Alchemist

…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.

Annabel

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Anthills of the Savannah

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

Why do you cry?" "I almost lost you..." "You cannot lose me, not when you are part of me... You cannot lose has become part of you.

Hard as a Rock

Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.

How Green Was My Valley

...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.

Happiness, Like Water

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

The Innocents Abroad

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

I Still Believe

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

Ilustrado

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Insurgent