Erin Morgenstern Quotes

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

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

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

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?

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I've finally found myself, fighting for a chance. I know now, this is who I really am.

We are all in the process of becoming.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

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.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

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.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

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.

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 not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

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.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.