Macy Gray Quotes

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Freedom is not safety but opportunity.

People change when they tell themselves they have to change. People do not change when you tell them they have to change.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.