Creativity Quote by George Harrison

Harrison’s line lands like a gentle shove: stop outsourcing your life. The first move is almost therapeutic in its plainness - “it’s all within yourself” - but he doesn’t sell self-reliance as swagger. He frames it as responsibility. “No one else can make you change” isn’t a motivational poster; it’s a warning about how seductive it is to wait for a lover, a bandmate, a headline, a guru to do the difficult internal work for you.

Then he pivots to the humbling part: “you’re only very small.” Coming from a Beatle, that’s the tell. This is a man who lived inside mass adoration and watched it fail to produce peace. The subtext is anti-celebrity: the world can inflate you until you mistake attention for meaning, then deflate you when it moves on. Harrison refuses both fantasies. You matter, but not in the way your ego wants.

The final phrase - “life flows on within you and without you” - does the real magic. It’s a double exposure: inner life and outer life running concurrently, indifferent to your attempts to control either. In the context of Harrison’s turn toward spiritual practice and his skepticism of fame’s noise, the lyric argues for a calmer, less possessive way of being: participate fully, but don’t pretend you’re the author of the whole story. Change is intimate; life is larger than you; both facts can be strangely relieving.