Becoming Oneself Quotes

You shall become the person you are.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

The soul is the lure of our becoming.

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.