Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn't turn out the way you intended it to. My whole philosophy has always been that there is no way to change anything else in the world if you don't have the capacity to change yourself.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

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.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

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.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

You change your life by changing your heart.

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.