Peter Senge Quotes

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

You change your life by changing your heart.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

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.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.

You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.

No man need stay the way he is.

Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.

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.

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

"This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."