Ramana Maharshi Quotes

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.

Allah does not change social conditions until people change their attitude.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Change happens at the level of the individual

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

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

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

The world can only change from within.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change on some level - that human behaviour may not be changeable, but one has to try and be optimistic and work towards content that might signify change.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.

If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.

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

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.