Charles de Lint Quotes

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

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.

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.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

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.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

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

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've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

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

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

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

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.