Regina Spektor Quotes

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

When you're constantly stuck in your comfort zone, it means you're not growing.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

The past does not equal the future.

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

Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

There is no such thing as standing still.

All I'm trying to do is to keep going and keep evolving.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

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.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making it. If we did, we'd never make any progress at all.

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.

Growth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand.

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.