Jules Verne Quotes

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

We have changed our environment more quickly than we have learned how to change ourselves.

Change happens at the level of the individual

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.

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

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

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

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

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

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

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

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

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

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.