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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Peace, Home, Character

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Reputation, Clever, Hated

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Someone, Nothing, Grief

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Love, Rich, Sweet

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno

Confidence, Reality, Team

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman

Life, Learning, Happen

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Forget, Remember

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

Faith, Religion, Nature

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Good, True

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

War, Understand, Victory

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Character, Him, Manner

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker

Subject, Obsolete, Totally

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles

Give, Working, Themselves

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
Bodhidharma

Teacher, Help, Person

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Bo Bennett

Goal, Dream, Action

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Ambrose Bierce

Care, Less, Knows

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Anton Chekhov

Life, Trust, Impossible

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Steven Biko

Change, Truth, Lost

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
Martha Graham

God, Live, Living

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson

Adversity, State, Himself

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
James Whistler

Impossible, Talk

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
Bo Bennett

Success, Best, Blame

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Beautiful, Live

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde

Strength, Powerful, Important

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
Roy E. Disney

Decisions, Making, Values

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Virginia Satir

Parenting, Past, Her

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller

Thinking, Impossible, Place

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison

Life, Beauty, Remember

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Christopher Dawson

Good, Men, Fight

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