Becoming You Quotes (page 12)

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• may
• challenge
• world

You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints". Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. Viktor E. Frankl

• sheets
• paper
• figuring

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload. Haruki Murakami

• confused
• clears
• lived

You live out the confusions until they become clear. Anais Nin

• sane
• try
• harder

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. George Orwell

• chance
• manly
• hi

You take a really sleepy man, Esm, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact. J. D. Salinger

• old
• too
• never

You are never too old to become younger! Mae West

• believe
• true
• believers

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become? Terry Prachett

• clever
• manly
• clever man

You've become a clever man. Richard Russo

• enough
• becomes
• eventual

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough. Jodi Picoult

• simple life
• simple
• life

You understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. Daphne du Maurier

• god
• originals
• someone

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy. Marian Wright Edelman

• choices
• game
• thinking

You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman."Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world is not to read. The best thing is television and radio and ball games and a home I can't afford and, Good Lord, now, only now I realize what I've done. My grandfather and father were firemen. Walking in my sleep I followed them. Ray Bradbury

• parents
• growing up
• limitations

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece. Chuck Palahniuk

• inspirational
• fighting
• world

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don’t make ripples all around you, don’t try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world. Etty Hillesum

• life
• serious
• looking back

Becoming serious was not the same thing as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely. But death was a fact, a serious fact, no matter how you looked at it. Stuck inside this suffocating contradiction, I went on endlessly spinning in circles. Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. Haruki Murakami