David Mitchell Quotes

'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

As I feel this life growing and moving inside of me, all of a sudden everything else is not as important. There's a level of perspective that is changing.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.

You change your life by changing your heart.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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.

Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.

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.

It's hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or something like that.

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

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

I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.

Whatever it is that my heart wants, I'll do it, which is different than I used to be. I used to tell my heart what it wanted.

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.