Justin Vernon Quotes

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

You can't be born again, but you can change.

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.

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow.

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

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

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

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

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

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

You have to reinvent yourself.

I have to reinvent myself.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.