Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

Everybody grows in their own way.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

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

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

One creates oneself.