Being How To Be Quotes

“At length, however, and that length was measured in more decades than he chose to recall, he began to get sick of all the “Beginning to Begin” and the “Thinking How to Think”. This, even “Seeing How to See” and “Knowing How to Know” were all very well. But surely the path had to be about “Becoming How to Be”, the goal being “Being How to Be”?”
― H.M. Forester, Secret Friends: The Ramblings of a Madman in Search of a Soul