Bruce Sterling Quotes

There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

A mid life crisis is nothing but getting to the point where you go, have I done what I wanted to do? Am I living the life that I want to live? Am I appreciating what I have? If you don't get to that point developmentally, you're not doing it correctly. The people who get to that age and haven't reassessed usually haven't faced the fact that that's where they are.

To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

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

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.