KT Tunstall Quotes

Before you can do something you must first be something.

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

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

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.

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.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.