Becoming You Quotes Page 2

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.

How soon not now becomes never.

To get really high is to forget yourself.

And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome.

God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

If we only discuss issues with people who agree with us, we stop learning and become self-righteous.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery.

Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger.

If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do;

it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed .

.. In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse;

however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

It's not about the end goal. It's about who you become by consistently pushing the edge of your limits.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events.

Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.

He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy.

Then he becomes your partner.

If we only discuss issues with people who agree with us, we stop learning and become self-righteous.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine;

it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

When you decide to be something, you can be it.

That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

Don't let your struggle become your identity.

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

The things that seem insignificant to most people such as note, song, or walk become invaluable trasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.

Everything you do and every word you say can become a ministering seed.

You can be a blessing to everyone with whom you come in contact.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.