Becoming Quotes
111 quotes
"We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis."
"I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first."
"I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked."
"You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart."
"The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it."
"She was like the sun, She knew her place in the world - She would shine again regardless of all the storms and changeable weather She wouldn't adjust her purpose for things that pass."
"There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don't lose yourself at happy hour, but don't lose yourself on the corporate ladder, either."
Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
"The moment you begin to see yourself as GOD sees you, it gives you permission, authority and the audacity to become what you see through His eyes."
"There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experiences that help you laugh all over again."
"To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities."
Gordon W. Allport, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
"We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it."
"I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning."
"The human spirit holds remarkable strength, in times of adversity and pain, some stand taller after they've fallen proving that you can't measure a want, a desire or a dream on the logic of physical reality."
"I think people get lost in becoming someone other then themselves when they spend too much time in the presence of those who don't bring out the best in them."
"…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming."
"Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the users."
"I didn’t know I was in a prison until I was told I could go no further than where I am. It was in that moment that I determined to free myself. I am becoming much greater than I am today. I need the belief to grow."
"And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was "becoming". Wasn't it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times?"
"You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn"
"Change is the medium to become who you wish to be."
"It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self."
"There is so much power in choosing to love yourself against all odds and I hope with every kind of painful experience you become more aware who you are and what you are truly capable of. Life hurts but it's also remarkabley beautiful if you look past the chaos."
"Give yourself permission to let it hurt but also allow yourself the permission to let it heal."
"Evolve and see what comes with you anything that doesn't has taught you all you need to know."
"The magic of life hides in the dusty corners of chaos and you must sweep out the cobwebs of confusion before you reach the calm & euphorically moments; your soul believed, existed all along."
"Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?"
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there.n"
"Cease distracting your mind of things with little substance."
"Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise."
"Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Healing your wounds will hurt, so cry. Cry your pretty little heart out until you have nothing left to shed, that's how beauty is grown; through the darkest of our days we become the light."
"Sometimes your pledges become your problems."
"I became to understand you and all of you."
"Maybe the problem isn’t everything and everyone around you, but what lies within you."
"I didn’t know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one."
"Give second chances, third chances, but not a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and so on. Appreciate yourself and understand your worth – know it takes time for people to change, to become better. But know what you can take and what you deserve."
"You have to grow. You have to be. You have to love yourself unconditionally."
"You can’t just be. You have to become."
"Sometimes relationships aren’t meant to be forever. We stumble upon one another to learn, to love, to appreciate and become who we’re supposed to be."
"No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind."
"There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later."
"Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie aspedophiles’ continue to roam free in our societies terrorizingthe lives of our children and stripping them of all the joy andexcitement that comes with childhood."
"From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women andgirls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles andemotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasinglyhostile to the womenfolk"
"Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them."
Gordon W. Allport, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
"Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems."
Gordon W. Allport, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
"People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past."
Gordon W. Allport, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
"You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore."
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