The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to a state of openness and receptivity. You are always in change. You are always safe.
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.
We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.
I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.
No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
I've discovered that you can't change people. They can change themselves.
Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!
The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.
We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.
To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe that's just speculation.
Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.
When I was around 11, my dad took me to see Santana live, and then I got 'Sacred Fire,' and everything changed for me.
In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
No one is beyond the power of conversion, because no one is beyond the power of truth.
When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.
I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.
After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.
The day my son was born my life changed completely.
