Mike Ferguson Quotes

If you want to change the world - I do - you have to start with yourself.

Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

Change happens at the level of the individual

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage , where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That's how I create the vision.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

Maybe my pain was my motivation.

Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.

there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.

Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

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.

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.