People Change Quotes

“Some friendships need to die. Sometimes we’re so trapped in old patterns or comforts that we don’t offer anything meaningful to each other except history.”
― Vivek Shraya, People Change

“Our ideal self is actually holding us back, not propelling us forward. Like our true self, the notion of the ideal self once again limits us to one ultimate self, instead of giving us room to grow and explore alongside our evolving circumstances and desires. It limits our future. Once we’ve arrived at destination Ideal Self, there isn’t anywhere else to go. To some, this might be an achievement. To me, it’s stifling. I hope that I’m not actually my ideal self now, because I want to know who else I can be, what other layers I might shed or add.”
― Vivek Shraya, People Change

“The marginalized individual is systematically concretized into an identity—through either discrimination or the guise of acceptance—as a restraint, because there’s nothing more frightening than fluidity.”
― Vivek Shraya, People Change

“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

“When you’re not a man, your appearance is never neutral. Even a white dress shirt is political.”
― Vivek Shraya, People Change