Becoming You Quotes (page 8)

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• life
• inspirational
• personal

You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it? Richard Bach

• time
• inspirational
• great

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time. Chuck Palahniuk

• ignorance
• regret
• past

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it. Tennessee Williams

• children
• independent
• independently

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent. Robert Cormier

• thinking
• days
• thinks

You become what you think about all day long. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• house
• real
• feeling

You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated. Michel Foucault

• fall
• giving
• chance

You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. Elizabeth Gilbert

• life
• inspirational
• your life

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be. Doug Coupland

• famous
• famous authors
• author

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove. Ted Hughes

• art
• dance
• sometimes

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art. Rumi

• family
• eating
• garden

You can't save the whales by eating whales, but paradoxically, you can help save rare, domesticated foods by eating them. They're kept alive by gardeners who have a taste for them, and farmers who know they'll be able to sell them. The consumer becomes a link in this conservation chain by seeking out the places where heirloom vegetables are sold, taking them home, whacking them up with knives, and learning to incorporate their exceptional tastes into personal and family expectations. Barbara Kingsolver

• believe
• believe yourself
• saying

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. Cheryl Strayed

• thinking
• become
• becomes

You become what you think about. Earl Nightingale

• humanity
• world
• humanities

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

• inspirational
• great
• sacrifice

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for Maya Angelou