Bjork Quotes

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

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

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

I moved to Europe and was able to take time and really explore who I was and who I wanted to be. I needed that time for myself to really do that self-exploration and get back in touch with my roots.

It's taken me a long time to own the early part of my life.

I do love the idea of people at a certain time in their lives when they're questioning, figuring out who to be. I find that interesting, but honestly, I think it's like that at every time in your life.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.