Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quotes

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up.

Traveling changes you as a person. If you buy something, it's so different than if you put your money into traveling.

In life's journey, we all meet strange people and undergo many experiences that touch us and sometimes even change us.

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

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.

Advent creates people, new people.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it is, no it did not change my life. But when I went to Argentina on that first shoe-drop, it did change my life.

When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

A summer apart changes people.s

I used to be the kind of person who needed to have a lot of people around. That's where I found my serenity. I needed to have everyone around so I could have my hands and my mind in different places because that's what would calm me down. But now, I just want to be by myself. It's a good but scary place to be.

There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

I have been 'diving within' through the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years. It has changed my life, my world. I am not alone. Millions of other people of all ages, religions, and walks of life practice the technique and enjoy incredible benefits.

I'm a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.

We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn't start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.