William Irwin Thompson Quotes

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

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

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Everyone changes all the time.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Everyone can change.

It's possible to change.

Time repeats itself, so it's up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.

When you look at me in the beginning of '96 and at the end of '96, I'm two different people.

Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.

Everyone changes throughout the years.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.