Rudyard Kipling Quotes

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

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.

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

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

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

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I'm a work in progress.

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

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.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

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

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

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 always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

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