#becoming

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. ↗

— Mattie Stepanek

#becoming #celebrate #day #deed #every

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star. ↗

— Edgar Winter

#becoming #book #famous #guide #had

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person forgets himself, in a divine sense forgets his own name, dares not believe in himself, finds being himself too risky, finds it much easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, along with the crowd. Now this form of despair goes practically unnoticed in the world. Precisely by losing oneself in this way, such a person gains all that is required for a flawless performance in everyday life, yes, for making a great success out of life. Here there is no dragging of the feet, no difficulty with his self and its infinitizing, he is ground smooth as a pebble, as exchangeable as a coin of the realm. Far from anyone thinking him to be in despair, he is just what a human being ought to be. Naturally, the world has generally no understanding of what is truly horrifying. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#despair #loss #self #self-loss #success

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#being #hesse #life #siddhartha #unity

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. ↗

— John James Audubon

#becoming #desirous #fervently #grew #i

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#begun #few #i #in the past #man

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#becoming #decided #follow #girlfriend #given

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beliefs #confronted #driven #equal #excesses

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#charge #integrated #learning #life #non

The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#becoming-you-you-re-meant-to-be #bigger-picture #consecration #destiny #faith