Change Quotes

Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.

27059 quotes

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"Maybe I'm just tired. Maybe I'm just tired of doing the same thing every day."
Celie
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"Now I see what I must do. I must leave this place."
Nettie
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"The world you see now, it's just about over"
Sheriff Bell
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"Things don't make sense no more"
Sheriff Bell
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"The law aint what it used to be"
Sheriff Bell
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"The ways of the world have changed"
Sheriff Bell
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"The old time is gone"
Sheriff Bell
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"I had been shocked out of my routine."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The hardest part was accepting my new reality."
Pi Patel
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"I got to leave"
Celie
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"One cannot tear out a page of one's life, but one can throw the book in the fire."
Jean Valjean
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"Things have shifted in me. I'm different. I'm not sure in what way."
Offred
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"Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you noticed."
Offred
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"Like an old piece of cloth, I have been patched and repatched, until not much of the original remains."
Mariam
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"The world is ready for change."
Celie
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"Things have not been the same since."
Offred
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"Perhaps it is time I began to look at this whole matter in a new light."
Stevens
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"The world is changing, and perhaps my methods are of another age."
Stevens
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"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."
Offred
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"I liked the new ways best."
Huckleberry Finn
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"One cannot be forever looking back to the past."
Stevens
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"One cannot change the past, only the future."
Stevens
J
"I am becoming the worst version of myself."
Janine
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"My first step from the old world to the new."
Celie
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"The world has turned considerably more complicated than once it was."
Stevens
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"I have been presented with an opportunity to reconsider."
Stevens
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"The world moves on whether one is prepared or not."
Stevens
S
"Perhaps I have been too rigid in my thinking."
Stevens
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"All I was after was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I was looking for an exit and went deeper in."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)