Terry McMillan Quotes

I'm always reinventing myself.

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

I'm just constantly figuring out new ways to reinvent myself.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

I have to reinvent myself.

There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

Learn what you are and be such.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.

Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'