Parker Palmer Quotes

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

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

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

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

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

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

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

I'm a work in progress.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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 just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

I think I surprise myself.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.