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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Becoming

"How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover?"

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Becoming

"Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
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"Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing."

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Fiona Shaw Actress
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"Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming."

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"If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity."

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"It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being."

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