All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.
Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.
Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property. . . worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.
It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.
Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.
Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.
I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.
I am personally against abortion on demand, but I believe it is very clear that there must be legislation brought in that will deal with what is becoming simply a mish-mash of approaches
Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.
Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you.
Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty.
If only he can get over becoming a NERD.
As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.
I think that's still what the American Dream means: that with perseverance, with hard work, you can become something, that the classes won't prevent you from becoming, that there's a movement up that ladder with hard work.
