“You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”

“The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“(…) The problem is not yours – it is your mind’s only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours. (…) Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don’t look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change, there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these –you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

“The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”

Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author

“(…) if you can change yourself you will find that no other change is needed. To change the picture you merely change the film, you do not attack the cinema screen! (…) Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life – this is the quickest way to a change of your world.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

“If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer