“The documentary, which shares a title with the memoir, offers a behind-the-scenes look at Obama's 34 city book tour, documenting the lessons the author learned about community, resilience, and change along the way.”— MARY KATE MCGRATH, Bustle, bustle.com
“The journey between who you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.”— Conscious Arrival, instagram.com
“Becoming is never simply a becoming toward something, but a becoming away from something as well.”— Andrew Mitchell, amazon.com
“An airport is a place of transit, and not just geographically. I wish there was some sort of time-lapse to show how people change between departures and arrivals. When I arrive home from being away, I am never the same person as when I left.”— Alex Brueckner, thoughtcatalog.com
“We don’t become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. We don’t become what we know. Education is a process of love formation. When you go to a school, it should offer you new things to love.”— David Brooks, amazon.com
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“You were all things soft: a feather, a candle a kiss on a tired cheek. But you were not weak. You took the world and made all yours. And yes, you became.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“And so you became. Your soul felt lighter, shifting with the weight of change. You stopped trying to fit and started to just be. Imperfect and flawed, tough and soft, tender and strong.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Maybe where the sky and the water and the sand meet my new story begins. I am just now in my infinite moment becoming.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“She felt the interstate shift under her feet each step, a promise of who she would one day become.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“The unfolding of the human heart is artful and mysterious. Freedom is in the journey itself.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“We can be complacent and let our lives disappear in a dream, or we can become aware.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“On nights when you feel like your mouth Is filled with scar tissue when your fists are heavier than your clay heart, remember the broken that does not need replacement remember the lungs that pound air in a body too tired to kiss the sun tell yourself you are still working on it say healing, say tak…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“What will be first to emerge? The brain, pushing its murderous bulb through the mud? The heart? No— the heart is last to rise. The first to emerge is the image.”— Jenny George, narrativemagazine.com