Explore Quotes on Becoming

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

It’s not getting the million that’s important, it’s what it makes of you to achieve becoming a MILLIONAIRE.

Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries

Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.