Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.

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.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

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

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

I was a changed being after that fight. I was nothing before. I was a man now.

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

I have changed so much, post-'Raaz,' as a person.

It's, like, weird to watch a human being develop.

I'm not the same guy that you may have seen from the 'I Get Wet' album. I'm not that same person, and I don't just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It's not the same person at all.

I think that at the time, when I was first pregnant, it was hard to make the transition from being totally self-involved to not being able to think about myself at all. At the end of the day, I think that's the best thing that someone can go through. I think it makes you a better person. It doesn't mean that people who don't go through that aren't good people. For me, it was a good thing.

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

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

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

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe easily because in belief you are not going to be transformed. Belief is something added to you, something superficial. Your being is not changed; you are not passing through some mutation.

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.

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