Gary Zukav Quotes

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

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.

In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can.

My hope is that people experience the music and, in that, something works in them, that they realise how exceptional they are. Maybe that it inspires them to do something great in their own lives.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Improvement begins with I.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.