212+ Evolve Quotes To Inspire Growth and Change

Each of the following positive evolve quotes is overflowing with wisdom, life lessons, and knowledge. All you need is a couple of minutes out of your day, and you can make different or better choices depending on what you learn.

Reading meaningful quotes about evolving can help you change your perspective. They encompass nearly every aspect that makes up our day-to-day lives.

Thanks to all the distractions around us today, it’s easy to lose focus of what really matters in our lives. Sometimes all we need a reminder. To help you make the most of your life, below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and thought-provoking evolve quotes:

Best Evolve Quotes

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved. Charles Darwin

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. George Orwell

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened. Brian Solis

Changing a Habit is Never Difficult. Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it Vineet Raj Kapoor

There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a thing, and I guess it’s always been there. I hope it will always be there, I hope we don’t evolve past that. Buck Brannaman

As your life evolves, so should your circle. Izey Victoria Odiase

A sense of sacrifice is a must for someone who aspires to spiritually evolve. Hingori S

You are an endless project…changing, evolving, surprising. James Patterson

A mistake is an experience, choice or concept it is necessary for us to have or make in order to evolve beyond it. Errors can be the launchpad of great ideas. Stewart Stafford

You will grow and evolve because of your willingness to fail, to suck, to navigate murky waters, and to trust regardless of what happens. Peta Kelly

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

Grow. Evolve. Step out of your comfort zone. Anonymous

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea.  C. JoyBell C.

It’s never too late to change what you are, it took me a long time to figure that out. Erin Morgenstern

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow. Laurence Overmire

Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow. Anonymous

Part of evolving and becoming who we’re meant to be – whoever that is – requires respecting our inner selves so that we may be centered. Only then can we truly be happy. Martika Shanel

If you can’t evolve with me then you can’t be involved with me. Anonymous

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Endure to evolve. Lailah Gifty Akita

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal. George Gaylord Simpson

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve. Mahesh Bhatt

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Don’t just be who you are and what you are. Move, evolve, change, grow and become better each day. RVM

in the exploration of physical reality. Gary Zukav

Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me. Erykah Badu

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.  Matthew McConaughey

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The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance. Peter Drucker

What’s dangerous is not to evolve. Jeff Bezos

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved Charles Darwin

You are moving forward one way or another. Bryant McGill

She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another. Sarah Addison Allen

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.  Alan Watts

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself. Anonymous

It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year we can be sharing a pint. We seem to often devolve into conflict no matter how much we evolve… Brad Pitt

Education begins at the level of the learner.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Evolve with every experience. Lailah Gifty Akita

Change itself is changing. The process of evolution itself is evolving. There is a meta-evolution, or a metachange that is taking place. And in that process what you see is actually an increasing contrast between change and the eternal or the unchanging. Yasuhiko Kimura

Don’t just exist. Live. Get out, explore. Thrive. Challenge yourself. Evolve. Change forever. Anonymous

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Only when we accept that there is always someone who can do what we are doing, we will learn to evolve. Pooja Agnihotri

Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish Michael Kors

I’m very much a traditionalist, but I think it’s important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make. Chely Wright

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.  Laurence Overmire

The insight and experience from empowering quotes about change are valuable sources of wisdom, inspiration and motivation.

Famous Evolve Quotes

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos. Maria Montessori

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. E. O. Wilson

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. Oprah Winfrey

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.  Oprah Winfrey

You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines–commercial and underground–and your voice will evolve from what you see there. Thakoon Panichgul

I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and all of the things that support human existence upon this globe. Even minor fluctuations of climate could change the distribution of fish, … upset agriculture,…and inundate costal cities…… Such changes could occur at a faster rate perhaps than human society can evolve. Fred Singer

If you love them, give them space to grow. And yourself the strength to accept that they might evolve and change. Nitya Prakash

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time.  As microcosms of stardust, we do the same. Deepak Chopra

I am prepared to evolve. The question is, are you? Mother Nature

I don’t understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea? Garth Stein

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover. Matthew McConaughey

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn’t. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously. Eckhart Tolle

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become. Suzy Kassem

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.  Carol Burnett

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Sometimes you watch a view for a long time and the view watches you too! And then things evolve into what is seen, you become the view because your mind has gone there, and the view becomes you because its mind has also come to you! Mehmet Murat ildan

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.  Jesse J

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with. Jessie J

positive evolve quotes

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Some think to evolve; many believe to fear. Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying. Willard Van Orman Quine

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

As an artist, you have a path that you’re on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.  Daniel Radcliffe

Relationships don’t remain constant, but are in a constant state of evolving, either positively or negatively. Steven Redhead

In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance. Edwin Land

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation. Quentin Smith

You either evolve or dissolve. Usher

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

For the world, I am fading but I know I am evolving into someone I’ve always wanted to be. Nitya Prakash

I’m trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur. El-P

If you’re not changing, evolving with the times, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re stagnant, dying, already dead, or just a rock in someone’s shoe. Ray Palla

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, ‘charm the crowd’s ears more finely.’ Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving. Angela Ahrendts

Mistakes help you evolve. Make them, don’t be hard on yourself, learn from them and evolve. Anonymous

Education is the best provision for old age.

Words are powerful, and there’s a best selection of motivating growth quotes to discover for a bit of wisdom and a boost of confidence.

Powerful Evolve Quotes

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.  Peter Drucker

I will never apologize for who I am. I’ve worked hard to evolve and I’m proud of my triumphs. Alex Elle

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let… lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.  Chuck Palahniuk

Are we as a species evolving toward the best in ourselves or the worst? Let’s not lose sight of who we are and who we wish to be. Laurence Overmire

I’m not getting old I’m evolving. Keith Richards

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.  Helen Keller

Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiercely competitive global marketplace-whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual-the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel-to rely only on the known, familiar, and automatized-is to invite disaster. Nathaniel Branden

Change takes time, forethought and knowledge, as well as an envisioned goal. Obiora Embry

Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private – not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.

Personal development and spiritual growth happens when you begin to laugh at yourself, accept your mistakes and embrace your flaws. Germany Kent

But you know you haven’t done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being. Conrad Hall

Progress occurs where truths are questioned. Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks. Amit Ray

Life is about evolving. Don’t stay in a situation that’s not helping you grow mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. Anonymous

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people. Robert Anton Wilson

You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high. You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life. You are here to help others to make their life happy. We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and excel. We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions. We are here to encompass the world with love and light. Amit Ray

Sometimes evolving doesn’t mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there. Salma Hayek

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve. T. D. Jakes

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience. Mark Galli

deep evolve quotes

You don’t evolve with fake friends or people that are not on your level. It’s much better to stay alone, then you can evolve. Cristi Cris

You are an endless project… changing, evolving, surprising.  James Patterson

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you’ll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has. Cael Sanderson

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don’t stop. David Eagleman

At some point in your life, if you’re lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. Daniel Day-Lewis

Humanity is evolving in the direction of not doing what it does. Anatoly Agulyansky

Never seek to please anyone. Seek to evolve thyself. Lailah Gifty Akita

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence […] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us. Steven Spielberg

Optimism is the most important human trait because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation and to hope for a better tomorrow. Seth Godin

There isn’t anything that should ever be considered permanent, as everything is evolving or changing in some way. Steven Redhead

Try evolving as much as you cry. Darnell Lamont Walker

Here’s the new reality: evolve or become irrelevant. Innovate or die. Lebo Grand

It’s Hard To Beat Somebody That Doesn’t Quit. Don’t Quit. Evolve. Wesam Fawzi

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers. Mark Bernstein

It’s evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant. Craig Charles

Look around you. Everything changes. everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing, and changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant. Dr. Steve Mataboli

and we now are evolving to a different mechanism

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.  Seth Godin

You cannot evolve unless you are willing to change. Leon Brown

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.  Barack Obama

Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. Germany Kent

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be patient with yourself as you evolve. Anonymous

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone’s eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming. Madeleine Stowe

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Allow these beautiful new chapter quotes to give you an extra inspiration in your step whenever you may need it.

Motivational Evolve Quotes

Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve. Sarah McLachlan

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don’t get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves. Luciano Berio

Life is the proving ground of an evolving soul. Will Craig

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

The only thing that changes as we evolve is the idea of what serves us. Neale Donald Walsch

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.  Church Klosterman

Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon are spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success. The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot the landscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basic issues have moved from ‘what is cloud’ to ‘how will cloud projects evolve’. Chris Howard

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.  David Bowie

I feel it most in my work, because there aren’t roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that’s worth doing, would be a miracle! Olympia Dukakis

I’m not getting old, I’m evolving. Keith Richards

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve. Aries Spears

Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity. Iyanla Vanzant

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something

Be the change you want to see. Mahatma Gandhi

The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and consciousness cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and will cannot evolve involuntarily. G.I. Gurdjieff

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we move beyond the limitations of the five senses

Evolve, experiment. Lailah Gifty Akita

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways. Carl Sagan

I am evolving and it’s so damn beautiful. Anonymous

I think that as you evolve spiritually, automatically your body tells you what is acceptable for your body and what is not. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Man must evolve from human conflict to a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King Jr

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience. Winston Churchill

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself. Mandy Hale

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.  Winston Churchill

You can’t just stick with what you know, you have to evolve. Vilmos Zsigmond

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations, and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

You can’t reach your potential by remaining in a past due season. Your breakthrough is coming. Strongholds are breaking. Get Ready! Germany Kent

I’ve always seen process of crafting as part of the thinking process. It really forms the gestation of the work. I’ll get an idea; I want to express this idea, sometimes I’ll start it, but during the process of making the object – if it’s an object or a painting – it changes. It never goes in a linear progression from A to Zed. It’s always this kind of circuitous, stumbling, groping in the dark kind of process of evolving. Michael C. McMillen

The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving. Brian Solis

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Memory is the scribe of the soul

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

You actually evolve faster when you look to uplift, rather than judge those who seem to be struggling in life. Russel Simmonds

As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down  years ago by reading C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. Francis Collins

Unless you continually work, evolve and innovate, you’ll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has. Cael Sanderson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.  Henri Bergson

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that’s why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher. Patrick Stewart

If you don’t EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate. Usher

Explore, experience, evolve, and exceed your expectations! – No Excuses! Lorii Myers

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.  Martin Luther King Jr.

Humanity evolves because of those who are unafraid to chart their own course. Dipa Sanatani

To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions. Samuel Wilson

Unconditional love has the power to change and evolve human life. Purvi Raniga

As we become multi sensory,

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin

Be the change you want to see in your networks James H. Fowler

Happy are those who evolve from within. Amit Abraham

Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the strange knock at the door, the sudden sight of an unceremoniously blooming flower, an afternoon in the yard, a day of riding the midtown bus. Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there. Joan D. Chittister

Imperfection is the best gift we got as a human, this is how you evolve, some fails and some succeeds, but we do evolve Kumar Pranay

Continue to grow and evolve. Mahatma Gandhi

You are under no obligation to be the same person you were a year, a month, or even  minutes ago. You have the right to evolve. Anonymous

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

It’s time to evolve. Bill Hicks

Evolving increases our value, and when we know our value, we navigate toward those with whom we share a genuine interest and appreciation. The rest, in my estimation, is bondage. Kyrian Lyndon

Like butterflies, we evolve; but as Beings of Light we continuously evolve when we are fully present. Michelle Cruz

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. Seth Godin

Getting lost is not a waste of time. To travel is to evolve. Pierre Bernard

Your evolve happens at the rate and quality of your involve. Felicia Miracle Hankins

The moment of change is the only problem.  Adrienne Rich

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.  George Bernard Shaw

At some point in your life, if you’re lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.  Daniel Day-Lewis

In the offseason, you should be working, reading, developing, growing, evolving, and becoming your best self.  Germany Kent

Through discipline comes freedom.

Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won’t be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind. Shannon L. Alder

Evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. Oprah Winfrey

I’m always trying to evolve and I’m always trying to learn new things. the mind is the most powerful weapon you have. Myles Jury

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in ‘getting back to normal’, that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love. Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let… lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may. Chuck Palahniuk

These famous mindset quotes will inspire positivity and good, happy feelings.