Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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

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

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.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

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

I have changed so much, post-'Raaz,' as a person.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

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

I'm a work in progress.

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 do need to maintain some of yourself and know who you are, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve.

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

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

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?