Terry Pratchett Quotes

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

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

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

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.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

You do grow, and you learn from your experiences, and that's obviously what happened to me.

I want to be known as someone who grew up a little.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

Playing four years of college, you learn a lot; you learn more about yourself than anything.

I've grown and I've matured, and I kind of like that.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

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

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger