#becoming

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. ↗

— Xun Zi

#big #big picture #clouded #everyone #fear

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ↗

— Anais Nin

#combination #death #elect #fail #go

Mara, if you're tired, I can hear it. If you're hurt, I can feel it. And if you lie, I will know it. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#noah-shaw #the-unbecoming-of-mara-dyer #love

With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love. ↗

— Diane Wolkstein

#becoming #bows #choice #eros #kama

In the beginning we all feel a bit like imposters in our capes and veils and being called 'sister'. But don't worry about it -- just act like you think a nun should when you're not sure what to do, and you'll find that through grace and love you become one. ↗

— Mark Salzman

#love

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#being #difficulty #doctor #get #horizontal

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#almost #art #art history #becoming #class

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process. ↗

— Peter Bart

#biggest #corporate #creative #creative process #danger

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#because #becoming #brain #dancers #decrease

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#becoming #court #ends #first #first time