Charles Bukowski Quotes

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I'm just constantly figuring out new ways to reinvent myself.

You have to reinvent yourself.

I have to reinvent myself.

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

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

I'm a guy who just loves to reinvent myself.

You've always got to try and reinvent yourself.

Always try to reinvent myself; never try to stay the same person, because that's how people figure you out.

I'm always reinventing myself.

I'm a work in progress.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

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 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?

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.

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.