James A. Michener Quotes

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

I changed my life today. What did you do?

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?

One choice can transform you!

I realised nothing was permanently broken, I needed to take control and make changes.

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

I have to reinvent myself.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.