Bell Hooks Quotes

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

I am forever learning and changing.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

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

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.

On a personal level, change is a hard thing for me.