Change Quotes

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

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"I didn't want to be tough anymore."
Ponyboy Curtis
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"I was going to be different."
Ponyboy Curtis
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"I had to choose between the family I was born into and the person I wanted to become."
Tara Westover
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"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place"
The Red Queen
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"A slow sort of country!"
The Red Queen
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"Change begins with a single thought and a willingness to act."
Milo
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"The metamorphosis I had undergone made it impossible to ignore the contradictions in my upbringing."
Tara Westover
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"I am not myself, you see."
Alice
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"One cannot stay in childhood forever."
Christopher Robin
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"I realized that the past does not have to dictate the future."
Tara Westover
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"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
Alice
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"I wonder if I've been changed in the night."
Alice
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"Growing up can be a perilous thing."
Milo
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"I could not become educated and remain who I was"
Tara Westover
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"Change is necessary for growth."
Tock
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"I had to choose between the family I was born into and the person I wanted to become."
Tara Westover
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"The person I am now would never recognize the person I was."
Tara Westover
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"Before I had my accident, I was something like an egg."
Humpty Dumpty
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"Living in the past prevents you from discovering the future."
Tock
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"The skill I was learning was a very specific one: how to exist in a different world and return to the old one."
Tara Westover
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"I had started a new life, and it couldn't have been more different from my old one."
Tara Westover
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"Everything changed when I left home."
Tara Westover
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"Change was possible, but only if I was willing to change myself."
Tara Westover
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"I had to choose between two worlds."
Tara Westover
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"What a curious feeling it is to grow small again!"
Alice
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"I had come to understand that I was not the person I had believed myself to be."
Tara Westover
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"I was not the person I had been raised to be."
Tara Westover
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"I realized that the person I wanted to become required leaving behind the person I had been."
Tara Westover
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"My transformation began with a single question: what if my father is wrong?"
Tara Westover