Quotes of: Becoming Keyword

His son's transformation cannot be stopped, or hastened, or adjusted; the man he will become is already present, like a form emerging from a slab of stone. All that remains is to watch it happen.

Mary and O'Neil: A Novel in Stories

The disappearance of love. Two become one, like I cross my legs, intertwined, and hard to run. 

My love can only occupy one person at a time

What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

The Moviegoer

Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.

Mounting the Whale

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

The Memory of Water

Because my family has no money, I’ve decided to become a prostitute. That’s right, I’m going into politics.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

When Internet parlance finds its way into our accepted vocabulary, it becomes a cliché.

Netiquette IQ: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

In the Night Garden

But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's January 9, 1771 letter to ...

Natural Right and History

In the context of Lawrence's rejection of the Freudian notion of incest and the close identification between author and character, Sons and Lovers becomes an exercise in deliberate ambiguity.

The Novels of D. H. Lawrence: A Search for Integration

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

Night Train to Lisbon

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Even when or if I become one of you, I vow to appreciate life; to appreciate my strength because unlike you, it seems, I’ve worked to earn mine

No Secrets: Eternity series

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

The New York Trilogy

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness- a real thorough-going illness.

Notes from Underground

Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element.

Neglected But Undefeated

It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.

Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World