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Becoming Quotes (page 68)

David Lynch quote: "We think we understand the rules when we become adults but..."
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. David Lynch
With four-to-one odds against us, our ability to leave the encounter without serious damage becomes seriously impaired." "Spock," McCoy said gently, "your bedside manner is flawless. You mean, we're all going to be blown to hell." Spock hesitated, then nodded. Diane Duane
Such labor follows in the steps of Freud, who has become the Ptolemy of psychology, for now, with him, anyone can explain human phenomena, raising epicycles upon epicycles... Stanislaw Lem
When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them. Tennessee Williams
Coffee is a more powerful fluid than people generally think. A man in good health may drink two bottles of wine a day for a long time, and sustain his strength. If he drank that quantity of coffee he would become imbecile and die of consumption. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Mitchell quote: "You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't..."
You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming"-Rhett Butler Margaret Mitchell
I have more often as my companion "darkness." And when the night becomes very thick- and it seems to me as if I will end up in hell- then I simply offer myself to Jesus. Mother Teresa
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent. Salman Rushdie
Henry Miller quote: "What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty,..."
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Henry Miller
Amy Tan quote: "Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more..."
Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused. Amy Tan
It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatros, potentials unknowingly murdered. Ben Okri
In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation. James Joyce
Blaise Pascal quote: "Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little..."
Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children. Blaise Pascal

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