Jim Hodges Quotes

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

My life has been about big changes.

From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

You come to a point in your life where you don't want to just keep repeating yourself.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

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

I have to reinvent myself.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

My life needs editing.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.