Rachel Cusk Quotes

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

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.

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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

I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.

One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

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

My life has been about big changes.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

Life is a re-discovery.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.