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"The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business."
"It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*"
"Life is about becoming more of who you really are."
"I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life."
"Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed."
"My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill."
"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."
"If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if."
"As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can."
"Life isn't about getting more. It's about becoming more."
"Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself."
"Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far."
"Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance."
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through."
"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.""
"Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming."
"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."
"The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?""
"The most developed science remains a continual becoming"
"We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming."
