Reinvention Quotes

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
― Taylor Swift

“Let’s live something together—but not just a life.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“When people around you do not support your personal growth and reinvention, it doesn’t mean you are on the wrong path or that you have to listen to them. Just because someone continues to judge you from where you were doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”
― Susan C. Young

“I don't know when the boys
began to walk away with parts of myself
in their sticky hands; when loving
became a process of subtraction. Or why,
having given up what seems so much,
I'm willing to lose even more — erasing
all this body's known, relearning it with you.”
― Melissa Stein

“Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a class of their own.”
― John le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

“She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of who she was, find a sweetness in love again, and, for the first time, belong to the world rather than commanding it.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“It's a lie, you know, that you only get one story.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) "have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.”
― Bruce Frankel

“I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention”
― John le Carre, Conversations With John le Carré

“Do you know the names of the stars?" I ask Luna.
Luna turns from the cauldron and points. "Those two at the very top are Lerrel and Sillis. The brightest one above the left eye is Shalev, and Mal is below the right. The dimmest is Ness--"
"Ness," I interrupt, feeling the name light me up like a firefly surrounded in pitch-black darkness. I like that this star is the dimmest in the entire constellation. I've spent too much of my life on the wrong stages and I wouldn't mind going unnoticed until I'm ready to present the best version of myself. "Call me Ness from now on.”
― Adam Silvera, First Face - A Ness Prequel Short Story

“The gray light washes over me again and gives me back everything that I was.
Not everything.
Eduardo Iron is dead like the world believes.
Ness Arroyo lives on.”
― Adam Silvera, First Face - A Ness Prequel Short Story

“Reinvention requires both a kind of death and a desire to keep living. And so at its core, reinvention is inextricably linked to hope: the hope that we can find another way, take another shape.”
― Vivek Shraya, People Change

“i’ve arrived at a sort of emancipation moment. one that allows me to cultivate joy and pleasure in ways that feel liberatory. one that is radically indulgent and excessive. one that holds space for me in the midst of my fear - fear of my huge presence. fear of my light. fear of my weaknesses. fear of my sexuality. fear of my neurodivergence. fear of my magic. fear of my multiple selves and entities - one that allows me to reinvent myself as many times as this skinsuit is willing to carry me . one that grants me the permission to, in all its glory, make a “spectacle of myself”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Life is asking us to be flexible. I had to reinvent myself a hundred times just to find some peace of mind. Without flexibility, I would have been stuck in horrible situations.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Life is asking us to be flexible. Without flexibility, I would have been stuck in horrible situations.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“I had to reinvent myself a hundred times just to find some peace of mind.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Lifting weights has trained me to understand my body not just as a consensus of cells, but as a critical mass—a medium where meaning is made. It's also helped me come to understand my own unsteady relationship with masculinity, not because I'm some big strongman in foxy Lycra pants who hogs the squat rack (though probably all of that too) but because it's breaking down my existing ideas of what manhood means and forcing me to rebuild them in my own image. Generations of American men have historically been instructed, through suggestion, inference, risk, reward, and punishment, not to express themselves, especially when that means sharing our feelings.”
― Michael Andor Brodeur, Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle

“Hope is the strength that keeps us going.”
― Ken Goldstein, Endless Encores

“we take pictures and videos as love letters to our future selves - reminders of who we are, where we've been and what we're capable of, in case we ever forget.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“don’t pressure yourself to write. don’t tie your craft to trends. don’t chase virality. remain true to your gift. be gentle and slow and sacred with your process. these platforms can be tools, but they are not the source. the source is you and your soul and your spirit and your guides. hold that close.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s a comeback.”
― Bree Penfold, Lola Bloom The Flamingo Diaries: A Midlife Memoir-in-Motion

“Maybe midlife isn’t the crisis we joke about. Maybe it’s the moment you finally stop waiting—for permission, for perfection, for the "right" time.”
― Bree Penfold, Lola Bloom The Flamingo Diaries: A Midlife Memoir-in-Motion

“I used to think healing meant fixing yourself. But maybe it’s just about feeling yourself again. Messy. Leaky. Alive.”
― Bree Penfold, Lola Bloom The Flamingo Diaries: A Midlife Memoir-in-Motion

“Midlife shouldn’t be the end of youth. It should be the beginning of giving zero f*cks and finally doing life our way.”
― Bree Penfold, Lola Bloom The Flamingo Diaries: A Midlife Memoir-in-Motion

“There’s no way I’m only meant to be a mom and wife. There’s got to be more in store for me, right?”
― Bree Penfold, Lola Bloom The Flamingo Diaries: A Midlife Memoir-in-Motion

“Maybe it’s not about being seen. Maybe it’s about finally seeing yourself.”
― Bree Penfold, Lola Bloom The Flamingo Diaries: A Midlife Memoir-in-Motion

“Midlife doesn’t feel like a fork in the road. It feels like a goddamn roundabout.”
― Bree Penfold, Lola Bloom The Flamingo Diaries: A Midlife Memoir-in-Motion

“Chaos isn’t the enemy of progress it’s the architect of reinvention.”
― Shamail Aijaz, The Myth of the Safe Path: How Playing Small Costs More Than Risk

“I stopped trying to control the storm. I built sails instead.”
― Shamail Aijaz, The Myth of the Safe Path: How Playing Small Costs More Than Risk