Top 1200 Becoming Whole Quotes & Sayings

I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable. There's no such thing as "fixed" culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems. Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I'll find my way - or get totally lost.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness.... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord.

`Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with the whole. And to melt and merge with the whole is to be holy. Not by fasting, not by torturing, but by becoming one with the whole, one becomes holy.

What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you cannot get out of it, but because you are trying from the wrong end. Rather than becoming aware of the whole situation - why you smoke in the first place - rather than becoming aware of the process of smoking, you are simply trying to drop it. It is like pruning the leaves of a tree without cutting the roots.

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

When you see what is happening with the social network, with Facebook, Twitter and co it is becoming obvious that the reputation of ourselves is becoming more and more important everyday. Image is becoming too much for me, and we are living in a virtual world and sometimes it is very easy to make mistakes. It is more difficult to take responsibility for our mistakes.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language.

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

I think some people have blind faith in American institutions without knowing a whole lot about them and think they will stand up to Donald Trump and are indestructible. I actually think democracy is not a definable and achievable state. Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn't tended to its journey toward democracy in a long time. It's been becoming less democratic, and right now it's in danger of becoming drastically less democratic.

All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance." Osho

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I've let go of the dream of becoming a UFC champion that I held in my heart my whole life.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

Integrity requires that I discern what is integral to my selfhood, what fits and what does not-and that I choose life-giving ways of relating to the forces that converge within me: Do I welcome them or fear them, embrace them or reject them, move with them or against them? By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

In becoming a whole person, the grateful leper was healed inside as well as on the outside. That day nine lepers were healed skin deep, but only one had the faith to be made whole. The tenth leper [was] changed eternally by [his] faith in the Savior and the healing power of his atonement.

Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a fairly shy person.

my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming a poison; can prevent enlightenment from becoming an agent of death.

Feminism is not simply the idea that women can benefit from rediscovering themselves but also that our whole culture can benefit from correcting its psychic/sexual imbalance through each person becoming whole again.

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

I used to worry about becoming a father. But now, after becoming one, I am very happy.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

I never thought in my whole life of becoming a heavy metal singer, but it just happened because I took the challenge.

Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.

I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient.

I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

It's not just the actor who's responsible for a film becoming a hit. A whole lot of work and people are involved in it.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.