Maxwell Maltz Quotes

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

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

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

I'm a totally different person in training.

How can I change me to suit the script?

Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

don’t mistake a new place for a new you.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering...

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

For things to change for you, you've got to change!

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

I'm not the same girl I was five years ago. Hopefully, with the choices I'm making people will start to see that I'm not just little Gabriella.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.