Jeff Tweedy Quotes

My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

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

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

You change your life by changing your heart.

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

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.

The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

The hardest thing for anyone is to admit you have a problem and then to act on it.

I want to be the healthiest, best Emma that I can be, and I know that by going to treatment that's what's going to happen, and I'm going to continue on that positive road.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

I don't want to be the same person I was on the pitch. I was an angry man, focused, wanted to win... Generally, now, I'm a happy guy.

I realized that I needed to start taking better care of myself.

Sobriety has been the most life-affirming path for me.

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.