Joss Whedon Quotes

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.

Always try to reinvent myself; never try to stay the same person, because that's how people figure you out.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

Everybody is changing.

Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

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.

Nothing is forever except change.

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

We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself.

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.