Debbie Ford Quotes

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.