Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

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.

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.

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.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

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.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

I will be what I will be - and I am now what I am. Here is where I will devote my energy.

The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

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.

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted