Havelock Ellis Quotes

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

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

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

I'm not the same guy that you may have seen from the 'I Get Wet' album. I'm not that same person, and I don't just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It's not the same person at all.

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

Everybody is changing.

I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19.

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

I learn a little more and I change a little bit

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

None of us are what we once were.

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

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.

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

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

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