Bijou Phillips Quotes

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.

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

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

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

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.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

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

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

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.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

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.

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.

My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!