Becoming More Quotes (page 11)

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• self
• learning
• goals

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• inspirational
• personal
• inspiration

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• life
• alone
• strangeness

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange Paulo Coelho

• moving
• humanity
• difficult

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult. Thomas Pynchon

• fear
• technology
• advancement

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. Don DeLillo

• time
• evening
• love

Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further. Nicholas Sparks

• creativity
• introducing
• seemingly

We must start from what seems a be a nullity, the unknowable, the inexpressible, the creative mystery wherein we are established. We cannot become more exact than this without introducing falsehood. David Herbert Lawrence

• together
• saying
• evening

What remains of the old Protestant fundamentalism is politics: abortion, gays, evolution. these issues are what binds congregations together. but even here things have changed as Americans have become more tolerant of many of these social taboos. Today many fundamentalist churches take nominally tough positions on, say, homosexuality but increasingly do little else for fear of offending the average believer, whom one schollar calls the "unchurched Harry". All it really takes to be a... Fareed Zakaria

• humanity
• world
• humanities

You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever. Saul Bellow

• christmas
• music
• difficult

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Music of the Hounds," 1954 E. B. White

• my everything
• life
• work

From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything else in my life waxed and waned, but writing, I discovered during my restructuring, was my real core. Not any relationship. Not any love. Not any person. I had become more selfish and less accessible. I ceased to be the universal mommy of the tribe. I wanted to see people when I was done with my writing for the day, and not in the middle of my work time. Marge Piercy

• people
• home
• insanity

And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one's wildest hopes, protector of one's deepest privacies. It was half insane with its noise, violence, and decay, but it gave one the tender security of fulfillment. On winter afternoons, from my office, there were sunsets across Manhattan when the smog itself shimmered and glowe? Despite its difficulties, which become more obvious all the time, one was constantly put to the test by this... Willie Morris

• food
• appearance
• tired

I shall be your poet! I do not want to be a poet for others; make your appearance, and I shall be your poet. I shall eat my own poem, and that will be my food. Or do you find me unworthy? Just as a temple dancer dances to the honor of the god Gudutl, so I have consecrated myself to your service; light, thinly clad, limber, unarmed, I renounce everything. I own nothing; I desire to own nothing; I love nothing; I have nothing to lose-but have I not thereby become more worthy of you, you who... Soren Kierkegaard

• peace
• she
• little

but the whispered tone had latterly become more drowsy; and Margaret, after a pause of a few minutes, found, as she fancied, that in spite of the buzz in the next room, Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap. Elizabeth Gaskell

• change
• changing
• becoming

I never change, I simply become more myself. Joyce Carol Oates