Eric Roth Quotes

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.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

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.

I discovered myself!

I think I surprise myself.

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

I hit a brick wall one day, and I spent a lot of time by myself learning about me and who I am and what I want and don't want.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

Four years and everything was the same, except me.

I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.