T. D. Jakes Quotes

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

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

You express different energies at different times in your life.

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.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I think I surprise myself.

I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.