#becoming

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#completely #each #extensions #generated #generates

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#coarse #cultural #even #first #first time

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#alongside #becoming #coach #developing #helping

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#becoming #british #coped #dictatorship #without

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#camp #day #diary #dreary #effort

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#becoming #best #between #ceased #city

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Michael McKean

#avoid #becoming #just #me #people

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

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