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Becoming Quotes (page 90)

Alvin Ailey quote: "To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the..."
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. Alvin Ailey
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. Harvey Milk
Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made. Aldous Huxley
Novalis quote: "Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps..."
Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will. Novalis
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Milan Kundera
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing. Jose Saramago
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Thomas Jefferson
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71 Bob Dylan
Milan Kundera quote: "Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments..."
Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. Milan Kundera
Paulo Coelho quote: "Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be"
Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be Paulo Coelho
T. H. White quote: "If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile,..."
If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition? T. H. White
He is astonished at the fact of his being, and this astonishment leads to reflection: as he leans over the river of his consciousness, he asks himself if the face that appears there, disfigured by the water, is his own. The singularity of his being, which is pure sensation in children, becomes a problem and a question Octavio Paz
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. Herman Melville
When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i. e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance. Sarah Vowell
Erma Bombeck quote: "When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe..."
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. Erma Bombeck

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