Becoming

⚡️ 10 Quotes from the book

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”

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“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.”

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“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”

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“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”

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“The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.”

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“Barack intrigued me. He was not like anyone I’d dated before, mainly because he seemed so secure.”

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“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”

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“We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”

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“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self.”

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“For every door that’s been opened to me, I’ve tried to open my door to others. And here is what I have to say, finally: Let’s invite one another in.”

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