Quotes about Becoming
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
— Henry David Thoreau
Then a deadline arrives and you have to cut it short. Is shipping that important? I think it is. I think the discipline of shipping is essential in the long-term path to becoming indispensable.
— Seth Godin
May God's will be done" is the same thing as saying, "May I become the best that I'm capable of being.
— Marianne Williamson
Reality is all things simultaneously, or, in the Greek phrase, it is a process of "becoming" in which even apparently clearcut opposites lose identity and merge into each other.
— Epicurus
However, a self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming, for the self [potentially] does not actually exist, it is only that which it is to become. In so far as the self does not become itself, it is not its own self; but not to be one's own self is despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I didn't want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
— Alice Hoffman
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
— Albert Camus
Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more it is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for, the very One who created you.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
An existing individual is constantly in process of becoming,... and translates all his thinking into terms of process. It is with (him)... as it is with a writer and his style; for he only has a style who never has anything finished, but 'moves the waters of the language' every time he begins, so that the most common expression comes into being for him with the freshness of a new birth.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.
— Joseph Campbell
The cry that breaks the silence is the sound of bodies becoming fully aware of what the predatory system has cost and being fully aware as well that it can be otherwise.
— Walter Brueggemann