Hermann Hesse Quotes

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

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

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.

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

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

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

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

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.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

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.

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

Change in yourself what you want to change in the world.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

The only permanent and constructive changes you can make in the world are the changes that you make in yourself.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.