Ryan Moreno

30 Stirring Quotes To Inspire You To Reinvent Yourself

I am my own experiment, my own work of art.
Sade Andria Zabala
November 22, 2017
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”
— Gautama Buddha, No Title
Tagged: The Past, Moving On
“I think it is very important for people to run away...from home, from the mainstream, from their family, from the culture, from the society that produced them...because the moment I have to learn something new, like new habits, new languages, I myself have something like a rebirth. I reduce myself to the lowest denominator and this is very healthy for an artist. To start all over again.”
— Saul Steinberg, Saul Steinberg Talks (1967)
Tagged: Starting Over, Runaway, Art, Rebirth, Creation
“Travel offers a chrysalis for change like nothing else  — it practically screams metamorphosis. Leave home and suddenly you can be anyone you want.”
— Lavinia Spalding, Writing Away
Tagged: travel, Rebirth, Chrysalis, Runaway, Metamorphosis
“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”
— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Tagged: Rebirth, Nature, Finding Yourself, Growing
“We fear the future will mirror our past, because we are born to believe that history repeats itself. But human beings are not history, they reinvent themselves instead of repeating themselves.”
— Rania Naim, Read This If You’re Terrified Of The Future
Tagged: Future, Fear, Past, Repetition
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
— Madonna, Madonna Quotes (From Vanity Fair Interview)
Tagged: Single, Womanhood, Love, Beautiful, Love Yourself, experiment, Art
“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”
— Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
Tagged: Henry Rollins
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
— Eric Roth, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button(Screenplay)
Tagged: Start Again, Begin again, Courage
“Change your life until you are who you know you are.”
— Adam Gnade, Simple Steps to a Life Less Shitty
Tagged: Identity, Change, self awareness, Self Improvement
“And the night smells like snow.
Walking home for a moment
you almost believe you could start again.
And an intense love rushes to your heart,
and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.”
— Franz Wright, Night Walk
Tagged: Snow, New Year's Eve, New Me, Beginnings, Hope
“I laugh with the sun, I drift away with the wind, I tease the ocean: high sea is the only thing I love. My feet are the most beautiful thing I’ve seen, I wash them continually with water and its foam.”
— Edith Södergran, Kärlek
Tagged: Nature, New Beginnings, Rebirth, reinvention, Mermaid Life, Surfing
“I feel free
somewhere on a highway
where time is endless
and I choose
where I will go
and who I will become.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Starting New, New Beginnings, Begin again, Finding Your Way, Highway, Lost & Found
“I hope wherever she takes you
that you will learn to call the place home.
And that you will let the sky fill you
with rain when you are emptied
like a bucket overflowing,
spilling off the edges,
quenching the thirst
of our broken earth
Until you no longer ache
for anything but your steady legs
and the ground beneath your feet.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Starting New, New Beginnings, Begin again, Finding Your Way, Finding Your Place, Healing, Starting Over
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
— Buddha, Buddha at Work: Finding Balance, Purpose and Happiness at Your Workplace
Tagged: Rebirth, present, Focus On Yourself, Spiritual, Good Morning, mornings, New Day (New You), Starting Over
“Once I silenced my critical and judgmental voices, curiosity took hold. I observed and noticed, rather than judged. My meditation practice led me into clarity.”
— Sandra LaMorgese, Switch: Time for a Change
Tagged: Finding Your Nature, Selfhood
“I’ve reinvented myself once. And I can do it again.”
— Brandon Stanton
Tagged: reinvention, self
“Trust nothing but your own experience.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: 'You're Never Who You Think You Are'
Tagged: Trust, Experience, Self-motivation
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
— Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
Tagged: Be yourself, Be You, Confidence
“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.”
— Erik Erikson, Erikson, in His Own Old Age, Expands His View of Life
Tagged: Know Yourself, Patience, Understanding Others, Wisdom
“Let yourself become living poetry.”
— Jalaluddin Rumi, A quote by Jalaluddin Rumi
Tagged: Poetry, Lover of Poetry, Poetic, Literature
“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Reinvent Yourself, Survivor, Fiesty, Never Give Up, reborn
“Cross it out, cross it out
Cross it out—
the last place you slept
doesn’t mean anything

cause grease stains wash out
you are
washed out of everything un
Soluble unsolved like all fire
born an accident”
— Tyler Dillow & Wayland Tracy, Oxy(gen) | by Tyler Dillow & Wayland Tracy
Tagged: Fire, Fiesty, Poetry, reborn
“Invest in yourself. You can afford it. Trust me.”
— Rashon Carraway, A quote by Rashon Carraway
Tagged: Love Yourself, Give Time For Yourself
“You may think it’s too late to start over; it’s not. You may think that you are too broken to be fixed; you’re not.”
— Alessandra Nicasio, Read This When You Need To Remember You Deserve To Move On
Tagged: Starting Over, broken, H4D-34
“Forgive yourself for the things that turned you into a ghost. Let me watch you love yourself solid again.”
— Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried, "Phantom Hand"
Tagged: Forgive Yourself, Ghost, Love
“You will not recognize me.
This time, I put my pieces back differently.”
— Malia Makana, Like Differently Love
Tagged: New Me, Reinvent Yourself, Change
“I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
Tagged: Reinvent Yourself, Begin again, Hopeful, Optimism
“I count
all the oceans, blood & not-blood,
all the people I could be,
the whole map, my mirror.”
— Fatimah Asghar, From “Oil” by Fatimah Asghar
Tagged: Poetry, Identity, New Me
“I shatter
what light has done to me: in my wildest dreams
where the given body is a form of flight
& in this latest version I step into
the wreckage, to find the other side of
me blooming.”
— Michael Wasson
Tagged: Blooming, Begin again, Rise From The Ashes, Poetry
“You always have the opportunity to learn, evolve, forgive, and change for the better.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, 5 Important Words To Always Remember In Your Life
Tagged: Life Tips, Inspirational, Glo Up, Hopeful, Self-improvement