Charles Dickens Quotes

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.

Everyone's the hero in their own story. You've lived your life. You're the good guy of your life, the protagonist of your own movie. Everyone knows that they have more in them to offer than they sometimes show.

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

I wanted people to know just who I am and what I'm all about and what actually happened. And to remind people that I had a life before Clint, and I intend to have one after.

I want my tattoos to be a story of my life.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.