Billy Graham Quotes

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The dead can't change, but you can.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

We grow each day or don't grow. Go the other way. We're a different person all the time. The human being is something happening differently every day. That's the challenge of doing a play: using your instrument to learn and to pull out these things.

Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.