Sandra Bullock Quotes

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

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

You change your life by changing your heart.

I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.

some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

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

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.

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.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

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

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

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.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.

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.

I think the thing about keeping your character fresh is, when you change as an individual, you have to flow with it.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

Nothing but the heart can change the 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.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to myself with time, not only in terms of my career choices, but the choices I make within one role or performance. I used to compose characters that were farther from me, but I find now that I like to craft a subtle composition, a subtle change in your essence.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.