Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.
Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.
To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous…. ” - Zadie Smith
Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
If you want to have more, you must become more.
You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
You don't become the character
You must become an expert on a product, service or anything you write about to really be effective.
Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.
They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
To become completely healed is to become the healer - bringing the beauty and meaning you found into the world.
I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.
When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly.
In nightlife you can become a star, while in the daytime you can just be a nobody.