42 Quotes About Reinvention

New names cost. They’d sacrificed things in their transfigurations. Tyrell Meeks. Imani Greene. Razz. Deirdre. They’d carved open their histories and offered up their guts.

Reinvention is no rushed religion.

A sudden, unanticipated death has a way of jolting us to our senses. Life as you know it will never be the same. It can be reinvented, reshaped into something different- but its never the same.

I must find myself a life, a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life. What is respect compared to this other thing: being happy and having satisfied the heart’s pride. Even being unhappy is better than being respected. I am unhappy despite the respect I enjoy; and so in my own eyes I don’t deserve this respect; for I consider only happiness worthy of respect. Therefore I must try whether it is possible to be happy without insisting on respect.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

Stay inquisitive. Question the potential interpretation of every collected data point. Remember that every successful idea has a life cycle, and a bad idea yesterday might be reformed under changing market forces as a good idea tomorrow.

The question is, do you understand what it means to start over?

Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

Whether your transformation happens through trauma, surprise, or intention, the process begins because of a growing need for change.