Quotes About Inner Change

#1. Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.

Francisco Leon

#2. With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible.

Irwin Corey

#3. Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

Martin Buber

#4. Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31

Thomas Merton

#5. Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

Angel Kyodo Williams

#6. Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.

Albert Einstein

#7. The most fundamental exercise is self-observation, which is the catalyst for inner change, it will give self-knowledge and a clear mind and perception. Without it, the attempt to reach enlightenment and awaken consciousness is destined to fail.

Belsebuub

#8. Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.

Henri Nouwen

#9. Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

Jurgen Moltmann

#10. As we unfold spiritually, the reality of our inner life enters new dimensions and we must change with it.

Harold Klemp

#11. When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#13. In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

Georg Simmel

#14. If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

Daisaku Ikeda

#16. It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

Wayne Teasdale

#17. I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

Dwyane Wade

#18. There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook,
peace of mind and inner happiness

Edward Bach

#19. Whether your life is destined to be short or to be long, along the way on that journey, if you access that inner power, not only will you change your life in a positive way, you'll ultimately help change other peoples lives. You will be carrying something forward.

Brad Willis

#20. The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.

Kurt Hahn

#21. We don't become saints by our actions. We are made saints by the immediate supernatural action of the Holy Spirit alone who works this change deep within our inner being so that we do, in fact, become new creations in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17).

Jerry Bridges

#22. To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Eckhart Tolle

#23. It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

Wally Amos

#24. On the surface, reality may appear the same each day, but in essence, we are new every moment of our lives. The potential for change and growth is unlimited if we allow ourselves to surrender to the flow.

Dorit Brauer

#25. When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

Amit Goswami

#26. In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We're not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We're looking for a softer orientation to life.

Marianne Williamson

#27. Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight

William James

#28. To bring about the new takes not just a development of the old, but a radical leap forward - revolutionary and transforming - and that requires extra factors that were not present before.

Belsebuub

#29. Each of us may be a diamond-in-the-rough, needing only a muse and a change in circumstance to go from humble caterpillar to majestic butterfly." - Peter Whitmer, Ph.D. ~from The Inner Elvis: A Psychological Biography of Elvis Aaron Presley

Peter Whitmer

#30. Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

James L. Farmer Jr.

#31. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

Hal Elrod

#32. Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run
if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.

Geneen Roth

#33. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

Eckhart Tolle

#34. Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

Arianna Huffington

#35. Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#36. Our environment, including the physical body, reflect our inner state - what we are inwardly, our eternal nature. When we renew our mind and transform ourselves, our environment responds to this change automatically.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#37. Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#38. There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

Bryan Adams

#39. You are beyond worth and your potential to change is in your next thought.

Toni Sorenson

#40. What really bugs Henry about Barry, he supposes, is Barry's complacency. His inner assurance that there is no need to change his self-destructive behavior, let alone search for its roots.

Stephen King

#41. The only truly reliable source of stability is a strong inner core and the willingness to change and adapt everything except that core.

James C. Collins

#42. Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

Marianne Williamson

#43. I CHOOSE to live by choice not by chance, to be motivated not manipulated, to be useful not used, to make change not excuses, to excel not compete. I CHOOSE self-esteem not self pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, NOT TO LISTEN TO THE RANDOM OPINIONS OF OTHERS.

Auliq Ice

#44. For spiritual change, we need to see and understand ourselves. What sees is consciousness, it is what perceives, and is essentially what we are. To understand ourselves we need to look within and study how we think and feel, and doing that is called self-observation.

Belsebuub

#45. Be content, Be grateful, Be loving, Be happy, and this lifestyle will not only change YOUR life, it will change OUR world. I finally grasped the true meaning of let go- let God. (An excerpt from Finding Inner Peace)

Alice Hocker

#46. Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the 'invisible worlds' beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in any area of your life - from spirituality and health to work and relationships.

Sandra Ingerman

#47. Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#48. Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others?

Radhe Maa

#49. The quickest way to change the world is to be of service to others. Show that your love can make a difference in the lives of people and thereby someone else's love can make a difference in your life. By each of us doing that and working together we change the world one inner person at a time.

Dannion Brinkley

#50. The eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, are external plunderers; emotions, desires, and opinions are internal plunderers. But if the inner mind is awake and alert, sitting aloof in the middle of it all, then these plunderers change and become members of the household.

Zicheng Hong

#51. If you are looking for answers for your life, know that the answers are within you. When you close your eyes, and focus on your inner God (meditate), you will know what to do. Trust yourself!

Camilla Dorand

#52. If you allow the life to happen, by connecting with your inner world, then you don't have to worry about the changes with your perception or the change in the outside world. All you have to do is to follow your inner truth, to reach to your destination.

Roshan Sharma

#53. Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

Frederick Lenz

#54. Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

Judith Clancy

#55. Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

Meghan O'Rourke

#56. Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Philip Yancey

#57. As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity - and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedded tech - will we be deprived of the chance to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful, substantive conversations? How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?

Klaus Schwab

#58. Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#59. In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all.

Samael Aun Weor

#60. Only those parts of the collective consciousness with strong, non-conflicting inner visions change the physical world. They simply will things into existence.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#61. But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire ... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.

Phil Cousineau

#62. When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.

Daisaku Ikeda

#63. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Plutarch

#64. Remember, when you change your inner world - your life - then your outer world - your life situation - will improve in parallel.

Hal Elrod

#65. Today, I take the time to get my friends and acquaintances current on the shifts in my inner life. I communicate clearly and openly. I allow time for people to adjust to the ways in which I have changed. I, too, adjust to the change in others.

Julia Cameron

#66. We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul's inspired desire for improvement.

Rand Olson

#67. Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

Laozi

#68. Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

#69. These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.

Martine Leavitt

#70. The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

Georg Simmel

#71. Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

Georgette Mosbacher

#72. The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

Bruce Lee

#73. What we are is what we receive. It is not about waiting for something outside ourselves to change - we must actively be the change if we wish to see the result.

Alaric Hutchinson

#74. It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

Vernon Howard

#75. You won't be able to find the truth by merely seeking it.
You also have to change your perspective and yourself.

Toba Beta

#76. Real happiness comes from loving you're inner self and excepting the things you can't change. Flaws perfectly imperfect.

Shellie Palmer

#77. When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#78. If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged ... just be willing to change.

Joyce Meyer

#79. As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

Marianne Williamson

#80. It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self.

Nikki Rowe

#81. We don't need more Hindus, more Christians, or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.

Jaggi Vasudev

#82. To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.

David Bohm

#83. One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

Robert E. Quinn

#84. All change is from the inner to the outer. All change begins in the self-concept. You must become the person you want to be on the inside before you see the appearance of this person on the outside.

Brian Tracy

#85. You cannot change the outer event, so you must change the inner experience.

Neale Donald Walsch

#86. If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul.

Michael Meade

#87. There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

Mandy Hale

#88. We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling. - Eric Hoffer

David Allen

#89. If you are never open to change things will remain the same, thereby driving you insane.

Clarine Williams

#90. There are so many things we can have in this world, but only 10 percent of it changes the condition of someone's heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#91. You belong to everything and
everything belongs to you.
You are in the beauty of a flower.
You are also in the nourishing spring shower.
Then why do you fear to change?
You just lose your name
and your inner beauty remains the same.

Debasish Mridha

#92. Believe in yourself and in your inner strength. You can do anything you want. Just put your mind to it!

Camilla Dorand

#93. Each of us has an inner compass. Its voice calls us to our highest good. Sometimes it requires that we alter a longstanding but stifling situation. It is difficult to face the severing or alteration of a relationship even when we know such change is for the highest good.

Julia Cameron

#94. The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.

Seamus Heaney

#95. The moment you blame life for who you are is that very moment you ignore your talents and inner abilities to change the world.

Jeekeshen Chinnappen

#96. We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world.

Dalai Lama

#97. Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Richard J. Foster

#98. No one can give you that which you can find within yourself.

Belsebuub

#99. Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

Joseph Campbell

#100. Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

Mike Ferguson