Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

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 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.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

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.

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.

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

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

We have to look in the mirror first. What are we doing? How can we make a change? It always starts with looking in the mirror. Every individual can. Every individual can make a difference either by proactively doing something positive or by doing nothing. That's a decision, too.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

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.

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

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

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.