Libba Bray Quotes

Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.

Everybody has their own path. I got mine.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

I remember once imagining what my life would be like, what I'd be like. I pictured having all these qualities, strong positive qualities that people could pick up on from across the room. But as time passed, few became qualities that I actually had. And all the possibilities I faced, and the sorts of people I could be, all of them got reduced every year to fewer and fewer until finally they got reduced to one - to who I am. And that's who I am.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.