Stephen Dunn Quotes

Who does not grow, declines.

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.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

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

Change comes from reflection.

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

I'm trying not to change.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

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

If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.

We are all in the process of becoming.

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

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

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

When you are through changing, you are through.