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To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

Today I am discovering who I am.  Today I am becoming my person, worthy of developing all of me.  Today I am beginning to know that I am okay the way I am.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

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

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.

To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress?

We are all equal in that we can all strive to become the best we are capable of becoming. We can always improve but we shouldn't compare ourselves to others. We get in trouble when we start trying to measure up to someone else.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

We are in the greatest evolutionary transformation in the history of our species. We are expanding beyond the five senses. We are becoming aware of ourselves as immortal souls, as powerful creators and co-creators. We are becoming aware that we experience what we create, and there is no escape from that.

We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.

We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began in 1980. In brief, the global temperature has remained constant for longer than it has increased.

We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

We don't want insurance companies becoming monopolies looking for favoritism in a cronyistic way at Washington. We want health insurers, hospitals, doctors, all providers of health care benefits competing against each other for our business as consumers.

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.

We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.