Alice Walker Quotes

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.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

You change your life by changing your heart.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

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.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

True change happens within not without

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

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

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

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

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

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.

There are times for inner changes. Be ready for the choice!

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

My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.

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