Judy Blume Quotes

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

I want to be known as someone who grew up a little.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

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.

I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to myself with time, not only in terms of my career choices, but the choices I make within one role or performance. I used to compose characters that were farther from me, but I find now that I like to craft a subtle composition, a subtle change in your essence.

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

First you will feel your inner transformation in your outer relationships, and then you will go deep. Then only will you begin to feel something inner. But we have a settled attitude about ourselves. We don't want to look into relationship at all, because then the naked face comes up.

In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show.

I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently."

I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.