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

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

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.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.

My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

I thought that if I was able to change myself, I would be more successful.

Everyone makes mistakes, and we need to learn to forgive ourselves.

Forgive everybody but yourself.

I believe God wants you to know that you can remain in your present idea about yourself, or you can choose again. I like the idea of choosing again. Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Changing yourself changes everything.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

You are the only person you can actually change

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

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

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