Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

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.

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

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

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

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

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

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

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.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.