Morrie Schwartz Quotes

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I have to reinvent myself.

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.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

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.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

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

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

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

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

I'm a guy who just loves to reinvent myself.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

I'm just constantly figuring out new ways to reinvent myself.

Always try to reinvent myself; never try to stay the same person, because that's how people figure you out.

I'm always reinventing myself.

Myself I must remake.

Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

You can't have all you want remaining who you currently are.