Leo Tolstoy 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.

There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change themselves

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Conversion is a daily thing.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

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.

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.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

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.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.