Shervin Pishevar Quotes

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends.

Life is a work in progress.

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.

Life is one big transition.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

A lot has transpired in my life.

Everyone is always making transitions in life.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

It's so crazy to look at your life and see how far you've come.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.