Aleister Crowley Quotes

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It’s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

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.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

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

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

People are like, 'Be yourself, be yourself,' and I'm still trying to figure out who that is. I know I'm not perfect, but I know I have a lot of people that support me and love me, and I don't want to let anyone down, so I just try to be the best that I can be.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.