Arundhati Roy Quotes

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

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

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

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

I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.