Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

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

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

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

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

Improvement begins with I.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

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

You change your life by changing your heart.

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.

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

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

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

The world can only change from within.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

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.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn't turn out the way you intended it to. My whole philosophy has always been that there is no way to change anything else in the world if you don't have the capacity to change yourself.