Shirley Hazzard Quotes

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

My life is my argument.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

It took me a while to find myself.

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

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

Step out of your cage And onto the stage It's time to start Playing your part Freedom awaits Open the gates Open your mind Freedom's a state

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.