Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.
Robert Anthony

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

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Jean Piaget

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
Jean Piaget

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Jean Piaget

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.
Lynette Fromme

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

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri Frederic Amiel

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
Joe DiMaggio

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
Saadi

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Saadi

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
Bell Hooks

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
David Foster Wallace

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster Wallace