Michael Franti Quotes

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

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.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Change happens at the level of the individual

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

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

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

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

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

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

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

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