Alexander Lowen Quotes

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

Love your self's self where it lives.

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.