Andrew Solomon Quotes

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.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

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

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

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.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

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.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

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

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?

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

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