Wilmer Valderrama Quotes

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

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

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

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

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

Changing yourself changes everything.

Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.

You can't be born again, but you can change.

I claimed myself and remade my life.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

I was a changed being after that fight. I was nothing before. I was a man now.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

We're all capable of being more than we presently are, and the effort that it takes and the will that it takes and sometimes the trauma and tragedy that it takes to force us into that kind of growth is the story of our lives.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

I feel like a new person. Not because of my career, but just because of what I've had to go through to pursue my career.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.