Winnie Holzman Quotes

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

I want to reclaim who I am.

One of my problems is to find the self.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

I have faced up to what I am.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

I reached a point in my private life where I started having these thoughts about changing. But I was paralyzed by fear, that I would lose everything that I had worked very hard to achieve up until that point.

Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite.