Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

Everything is a learning experience for me.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

My past has helped me grow as a person.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I was such an idiot until the age of 28.