Charles de Lint Quotes

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

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

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.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

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

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But figuratively speaking, I'm really into growth, so when I look in the mirror, I see somebody who's just trying to get better everyday.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.

First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change