John Templeton Quotes

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

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

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be.

Nothing happens without personal transformation.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

You are the only person you can actually change

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

We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.

When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

Changing yourself changes everything.

Anger is fear in disguise.

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.

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself.

It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.

The vulnerability undid him even as the strength brought him pride. And the whole of her brought him love beyond the measuring of it. Of all he'd craved in his life, all he'd dreamed of having, all he'd fought to gain by fair means or foul, he'd never imagined having such such as she as his own. Never imagined himself the man he'd come to be because she was.