self-directed change Quotes

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

You can't help someone unless she wants to help herself. You can give her a nudge, but if she doesn't want to help herself, no one is going to be able to force her to do anything. I like that "attraction rather than promotion" approach.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.