Quotes About Wanting To Change Yourself

#1. I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

Julie Brown

#2. A lot of the offers I get are for these innocent 16-year-olds, and I turn down a lot of stuff because it's the same-old same-old. The whole point of wanting to act is trying to change it up, and I want to experience everything.

Jillian Murray

#3. Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered

Virginia Woolf

#4. It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

Susan Sarandon

#5. That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.

Jacqueline Woodson

#6. The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention.

Wayne Dyer

#7. True resistance begins with people confronting pain ... and wanting to do something to change it.

Bell Hooks

#8. You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life.

Jen Sincero

#9. You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do.

Kathy Freston

#10. We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely ... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

George Sheehan

#11. I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

Mark Nepo

#12. Wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

Isaac Marion

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

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#14. This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

Augustus Y. Napier

#15. I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

Salman Rushdie

#16. Personal transformation is an internal job.
No one can change you without you first wanting the change for yourself. The transformation starts in your thoughts! Only you can decide to change your thoughts and thus your behavior.

Michelle Word Hollis

#17. The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things

Meher Baba

#18. Some call us unnatural or demons, but that doesn't change the fact that we too were human once. We have feelings; we feel pain and there is no shame in wanting to live.

Karmen Lee

#19. Don't worry about wanting to change; start worrying when you don't feel like changing anymore. And in the meantime, enjoy every version of yourself you ever meet, because not everybody who discovers their true identity likes what they find.

Antony John

#20. Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Rob Reiner

#21. Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportunities that will change your life. Expect these things - work for them and don't ever stop until they're yours.

Jennifer Elisabeth

#22. Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)

Harold S. Kushner

#23. To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. The more emphasis we put on wanting things to change, the more unpeaceful we will be. The more emphasis we put on accepting and having gratitude for 'What is' the closer we are to arriving at Nirvana.

Matthew Donnelly

#25. Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow
for the better
working to deserve each other, was the key.

Penny Reid

#26. You're actin' like a girl, wanting to add me on Facebook and change your relationship status,

L.A. Casey

#27. The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.

Vance Bourjaily

#28. Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.

Toba Beta

#29. Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#30. That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Ray Bradbury

#31. So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.

Lynn Grabhorn

#32. ALCIBIADES: How came the noble Timon to this change?
TIMON: As the moon does, by wanting light to give:
But then renew I could not, like the moon;
There were no suns to borrow of.

William Shakespeare

#33. I started off wanting to change the world, now I'm just hoping the world doesn't change me.

Ray Mileur

#34. The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Steven Soderbergh

#35. Wanting to change your handwriting may be an indication that you are ready, or wanting, to change a whole lot of other things in your life as well. You alone can decide what you wish to change and why.

Rosemary Sassoon

#36. Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

Kevin Grevioux

#37. In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

Rory McIlroy

#38. Karma means always wanting more of what won't get you anywhere in the first place.

Deepak Chopra

#39. I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.

Don Piper

#40. Nothing's ever going to change my love for you. Well, at least as long as I keep wanting what I can't have.

Kate McGahan