Becoming You Quotes (page 11)

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• look
• promise
• decision

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. Anita Brookner

• responsibility
• forever
• responsibilities

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• walking
• walks
• winners

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge. Damon Runyon

• life
• good
• good life

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. Kenneth Rexroth

• becoming
• modernize
• become

You are born modern, you do not become so. Jean Baudrillard

• thinking
• death
• look

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. Eliot Ness

• money
• support
• having

You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one. Sibel Edmonds

• sleep
• life
• thinking

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings. Hugh Jackman

• good
• wishes
• old man

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. Marcus Aurelius

• small
• great
• greatness

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. James Allen

• mind
• mindfulness
• empty

Become totally empty. Quiet the restlessness of the mind. Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness Lao Tzu

• who
• becomes
• become

Become who you are! Friedrich Nietzsche

• die
• girls
• soldier

You sit at the edge of the world, I am in a crater that's no more. Words without letters. Standing in the shadow of the door. The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard, Little fish rain from the sky. Outside the window there are soldiers, steeling themselves to die.(Refrain)Kafka sits in a chair by the shore, Thinking for the pendulum that moves the world, it seems. When your heart is closed, The shadow of the unmoving Sphinx, Becomes a knife that pierces your dreams. The drowning girl's... Haruki Murakami

• heart
• focus
• water

You got to hold still, I thought. Perfectly still. I concentrated, focused, felt my arms become rigid, stern and strong. I pulled back the trigger slowly, squeezing steadily. The bottle exploded, water shooting out in a wide fine spray. ‘Goddamn!’ Anne shouted. She was staring at me like I had stared at her earlier, her whole face open with pride and delight. Sexy, yeah. I pointed the barrel at the sky and let my mouth widen into a smile. ‘Goddamn,’ I said, and meant it with all my heart. Dorothy Allison

• attitude
• evening
• ours

You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible. John C. Maxwell