Jandy Nelson Quotes

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

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.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

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.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

At the end of a song, someone's always different than they are at the beginning.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

We're all works in progress and we'll all keep growing.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.