Becoming Quotes (page 53)

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• children
• world
• power

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier. Shinichi Suzuki

• father
• history
• learning

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator" Father Fernando Cardenal Barbara Kingsolver

• enough
• feeling
• wonder

The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the same revolutions; he has not sense enough to feel surprise at the sight of the greatest wonders; and it is not in his mind we must look for that philosophy, which man must have to know how to observe once, what he has every day seen." Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Inequality among Mankind, Ch. 1, 20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• work
• color
• god

I understood that what matters is the work: the string of words propelled by God becoming a poem, the weave of color and graphite scrawled upon the sheet that magnifies His motion. To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-changed. Patti Smith

• life
• life sayings
• saying

to become the spectator of one's own life, as harry says, is to escape the suffering of life Oscar Wilde

• good
• food
• being used

it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never be used as the food of the individual. Charles Spurgeon

• confused
• thinking
• you me

Are they real fires? Or are people just reacting to something? Just because there’s an alarm going doesn’t mean it’s a fire. And I think that people are confusing the two. It’s only a fire when it offends the fans, and the fans turn on you. Tosh has fans, and they get the joke. If you’ve watched enough Tracy Morgan, you let the worst thing go by. When did Tracy Morgan become Walter Cronkite? You have to mean something to me to offend me. You can’t break up with me if we don’t date. Chris Rock

• good
• bible
• men

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good. Dwight L. Moody

• the secret
• may
• children

I've become so accustomed to not reading that I don't even read what appears before my eyes. It's not easy: they teach us to read as children, and for the rest of our lives we remain the slaves of all the written stuff they fling in front of us. I may have had to make some effort myself, at first, to learn not to read, but now it comes quite naturally to me. The secret is not refusing to look at the written words. On the contrary, you must look at them, intensely, until they disappear. Italo Calvino

• good
• marriage
• widow

The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow Isabel Allende

• wellness
• twenties
• going

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. Cheryl Strayed

• words
• help
• may

Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season. Louisa May Alcott

• time
• pain
• serious

Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention. Gordon B. Hinckley

• best
• batman
• rich

The best thing for rich people to do is become Batman Karl Marx

• choices
• becomes
• otherness

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice? Laurell K. Hamilton