John Fowles Quotes

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

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

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

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 mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

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.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.