Self-Evolution Quotes

No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

I'm inherently a chameleon... to not evolve is to not live.

You can't find that moment when you became somebody else, because everything is in flux. So as it were, the torturous period where you are changing, you are transforming - I think that can be very hard on somebody's system. You don't necessarily realize that is what's happening.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.

Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.

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

My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

You always try different versions of yourself through songwriting. It can get a bit annoying to see them walk around and do their thing when you feel like, 'I'm not that person any more.'

It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.

I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it's part of growing up; it's also an attempt to reinvent myself.

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

There are a lot of people holding on to the old Jessie J - whatever that means - but I think there's a lot more people realizing what I'm about. I think people like it.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.

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