Diana Gabaldon Quotes

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

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

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

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.

You're born a certain way, but you don't gotta die like that.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

The first step to becoming is to will it.

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

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

If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

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.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.