To protect the environment, you have to work from the outside, not the inside.
The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.
External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.
Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.
Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.
In order to change your life outside, you must first change inside
don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
Change has to come from outside our corrupt system.
There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.
A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.
You have to change on the inside before change will happen on the outside.
I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.
When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight.
I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.
People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied.
In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you're the same person you always were.
Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
