Hermann Hesse Quotes

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.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

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.

Human improvement is from within outward.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

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.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

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

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

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

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

You change your life by changing your heart.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

If you want to change the world - I do - you have to start with yourself.