Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

To change what you get you must change who you are.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

You do need to maintain some of yourself and know who you are, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.