Andrew Solomon Quotes

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

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

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?

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

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

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

That is so very important - that you can develop yourself into anything you want.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

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

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

I change the world, the world changes me.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.