Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I came to love, I came into my own.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

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