Our education, our environment, our whole culture insists that we must become something. Our philosophies, our religions and sacred books all say the same thing. But now I see that the very process of becoming something implies envy, which means that I am not satisfied with being what I am; and I want to understand what I am, I want to find out why I am always comparing myself with another, trying to become something; and in understanding what I am there is no need for discipline. In the process of that understanding, integration comes into being. The contradiction in me yields to the understanding of myself, and this in turn brings an action which is integral, whole. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: religion philosophy being becoming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be who you are and be that well. —Francis de Sales More about this quote Tags: being identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. —John Galsworthy More about this quote Tags: being becoming eyes mouth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. —Abraham Maslow More about this quote Tags: accomplishment being becoming self-actualization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. —Floyd Dell More about this quote Tags: doing being nothing idleness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: being identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At times I think and at times I am. —Paul Valéry More about this quote Tags: being thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email