Teju Cole Quotes

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

If you ask me, everything... every event that takes place changes your life.

I never felt I was missing anything ever until one day I stopped long enough to smell the roses outside of this little treadmill I'd gotten myself onto and I realised there were other things that I like that I didn't know. I realised I didn't like certain things in my life that I then got rid of and it just opened the door to a plethora of other things that entered.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

I can't change your life till I can get you to change your daily routine.

Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

It's pain that changes our lives.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

There comes a time in your life where you're called to not only reinvent yourself but to rebuild your spirit. It's so relevant today.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

I was basically a broke student, and I moved to Asia and was making some money to go back to school. One thing led to another, and I was supposed to stay two months, but it ended up being eight years. It was the best mistake I ever made.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

One choice can transform you!

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he replied. Shoot in two weeks I met my future wife changed my entire life's trajectory and bought my first tie. You bought a tie I asked. Because honestly this was the most shocking part.