Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

For things to change for you, you've got to change!

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

I changed my life today. What did you do?

I will write my way into another life.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.

Changing yourself changes everything.

If you will change, things will change for you.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.