Forest Whitaker Quotes

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

After awhile, you start realizing that change is good for you. It's healthy.

The dead can't change, but you can.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.