Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.

I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.

I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?

The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.