Change Quotes
Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.
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"Very little is needed to turn a life around. It requires only a change of perspective."Marcus Aurelius
"You will be melted down. Your past will be obliterated."O'Brien
"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."Pip
"I am not what I was."Pip
"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."Pip
"The wheel is come full circle"The Narrator
"The very air we breathe is changed by the times"The Narrator
"The wheel of fortune turns"The Narrator
"I felt as if I had been born anew."Jane Eyre
"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion."Elizabeth Bennet
"I cannot live as I have been living. Something must change."Pip
"I am not what I once was, and I cannot be reconciled to myself as I am."Pip
"It is what you are that matters, not what you have been."Lord Henry Wotton
"Once you cross certain lines, you cannot return to who you were before"Sydney Carton
"The Sperm Whale of the present day is as much an altered and diminished apparition of the mighty monster as the Hunter or the poacher of the Middle Ages."Ishmael
"It was the night of the day when I was made a gentleman."Pip
"I became conscious of a change in the air around me."Pip
"That terrible morning when I left the forge, I was not at all happy."Pip
"The whale, as he swims, is not one and the same whale"Ishmael
"I am afraid that I cannot help you there. You would require being born again."Lord Henry Wotton
"I felt that I had grown a little in my feelings."Pip
"I am forever changed by what I have experienced."Pip
"What is past is past."Dorian Gray
"My temper I cannot change; but I can change what has offended you."Mr. Darcy
"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."Pip
"We are creatures of habit, and when the habit is broken, we suffer."Pip
"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."Mr. Darcy
"The only sure thing is change itself"The Narrator
"I felt as though I had been living a caterpillar existence, and suddenly my chrysalis had broken and I had emerged as a butterfly."Jane Eyre
"I must not forget that I was not always what I now am"Pip