Rajeev Suri Quotes

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'

Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.

Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

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.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

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

To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/ transform the world, they must change/ transform themselves.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest.

I've had so many life expriences and those experiences create you little by little. You're never going to be the same person you were yesterday, right? I've definitely gone through some traumatic things that really changed my way of seeing.

There was a girl I loved in high school - but never spoke to. Cut to my five-year reunion: I'm an entirely different person.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'.

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.