Morrie Schwartz Quotes

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

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

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

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 am turning into the person I knew I would.

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

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

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

I think I surprise myself.

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

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.

The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I'm a work in progress.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

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.