DISQUS

alligator_kate · 1 year ago

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open."--- Martha Graham

(long, but always so valuable to me--- there are other ones--- hard to choose, but this one gets me moving!)

Jody · 1 year ago

My favourite inspiration quote is not by someone famous, but a quote that has been passed down through our family from my great-grandmother. "All cats are grey in the dark" reminds me that we are all equals. I often jokingly use this quote but is also has a serious side.

Alice Inoue · 1 year ago

"When I meet anyone, I remember it is a holy encounter. As I see him, I see myself. As I treat him, I treat myself. As I think of him, I think of myself. I will never forget this, for in him I will find myself, or lose myself." - A Course in Miracles

Kristin · 1 year ago

"Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly stuffed and reordered in every way considerable." - Italo Calvino

Jennifer Sage · 1 year ago

If you are not the solution you are part of the problem

Vix · 1 year ago

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” Karen Ravn

It reminds me when i no longer think I can... that I must...its part of the journey

Judith · 1 year ago

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others Groucho Marx This has helped me out of many a tight spot.

Julia · 1 year ago

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." -Budda

This is a good one for those of us that struggle with anxiety!

dayna · 1 year ago

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” - Gandi

Emily-Sarah · 1 year ago

What great quotes you're all sharing, and what a wonderful way to start the day in sunny Boonville, North Carolina! Throughout the last few years I've gathered several inspirational quotes, but one of my most favorite ones is this:

"The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing." -- John Muir

Kirsty · 1 year ago

Ohhh...I like this one!

Kirsty · 1 year ago

Right now, here is what keeps me working forward:

"Do not think, dream."

Richard Bausch (from his Ten Commandments of the Writing Life)

braziliana · 1 year ago

I have many...and I added this to my favorites ones. "The process of beauty is as important as the end of the results." - Shu Uemura

Pia · 1 year ago

My favaourite quote is "When you're on the right path, the universe rises up to meet you"-the Alchemist.
It reminds me to let go of things and just let life be - it all works out for the right reason.

Mini · 1 year ago

"Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself."
Viktor Frankl
Oh yes!!! r

Right on brutha'
Have a great day!
Cheers!
Mini

Elizabeth · 1 year ago

This above all to thine own self be true; and it must follow as the night, the day; thou canst not then be false to any man. (from Hamlet)

Elizabeth · 1 year ago

fantastic!

Kristin (The Goat) · 1 year ago

"When you know better, you do better..." Maya Angelou

I love this quote because I can actually see it in my life. It helps me understand that some of my really stupid decisions in my past, I didn't know better, so I just forgive myself and move on. I learn more every day.

Joannie · 1 year ago

This is a wondrous thing!

Joannie · 1 year ago

I love this one, too by Ghandi!

Joannie · 1 year ago

It has taken me nearly a lifetime to know the truth of this.

Joannie · 1 year ago

So many wonderful quotes this morning.

I love, 'We teach best what we most need to learn', though of course there are many more I also love.

Tammy · 1 year ago

"Don't panic."- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
"Leap, and the net will appear."- this is from The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman
"There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."
-Vicki Baum (1888 - 1960)
and finally: “Shit, mother, I can’t dance.” – Jack Dalton (my late father-in-law)

Chantal · 1 year ago

and forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds longs to play with your hair ~ Kahlil Gibran

My Teacher told me one thing - live in the soul.
When that was so, I began to go naked and dance ~ Lalla

MelissaM · 1 year ago

One of my best friends wrote this to me in an email last week, and it quickly became a quoatable favourite:

"A created life is much greater than one you endure, which is how most of us go through most of life" -Jean Becker

I also love this one:

“We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be?? You are a child of God. Your playing small does NOT serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the Glory of God that is within us, ALL of us. And as we let our Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our Presence automatically liberates others.” -Nelson Mandela 1994

Ramona · 1 year ago

I am such a quote person!!! Today the winner is, "Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts; and never hope more than you work."
~Rita Mae Brown

*ramona

Xai Vicente Charles · 1 year ago

I love quotes so here are a few of my favorites:

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~Emily Dickinson

Where there is love there is life.~Gandhi

Ramona · 1 year ago

My God! This one brought tears to my eyes. Sometimes I forget to remember that it is not all about me; this life, this amazing journey is an act of reverence to something greater than I...

~Ramona

Ramona · 1 year ago

Love those!

I will remember to always buy that proverbial lily...

~Ramona

Ashley · 1 year ago

Great book! Great quote!

Shannon · 1 year ago

"You only have to do it the first time once" - Me :)

Jamie · 1 year ago

This is one of my favourites - EVER! Thank you for your brilliance, Shannon!

Jamie · 1 year ago

"May you know your strength and share it with the world around you."
from www.carolinescrayons.blogspot.com description of a Bat Mitzvah that she recently attended. What would the world be like if all young women received this wish?

Suzie Sunshine · 1 year ago

You only have one chance to make a first impression - so make it your best one.

lisaohhh · 1 year ago

'when the soul is in charge, your life becomes a love story.' i think john o'donohue said this, but i'm not totally sure.

Amy · 1 year ago

Very inspirational!

Amy · 1 year ago

One of my favorites!

Amy · 1 year ago

All about using mistakes as a learning and growing experience. I'm going through one of those phases right now!

Amy · 1 year ago

A very good thing to remember when you are stuck getting started!

weezie · 1 year ago

"Joy is the best makeup, but a little lipstick never hurts." - Anne LaMott

alligator_kate · 1 year ago

Love that one. Is it a useful book beyond the quote?

alligator_kate · 1 year ago

Yes, and as my herbalist teacher, Robin Rose Bennett says, may your life be your prayer to the world.

Kat the Drumming Diva · 1 year ago

everything has rhythm, everything dances
- maya angelou

Danette · 1 year ago

I scrolled down to Jamie looking for the quote I love that she signs off every email with...but she is newly inspired it seems! So I will share it: “Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”--Howard Thurman.
I love love love that quote.
I also love what Dolly Parton said when asked what she thought when people refered to her as a dumb blonde. She said it didn't bother her, "because I know that I'm not dumb. And I also know, that I'm not blonde."

Nia · 1 year ago

There is a poem in Marianne Williamson's A RETURN TO LOVE, the one that begins "Our deepest fear..." and its basically how we are not afraid that we aren't brilliant or great, its that we know inherently that we are and that when we shine, we allow others to do the same. That and Gandhi's "Be the change you wish to see in the world" and Nikki Giovanni's (my email signature) - "We love because its the only true adventure".

Missy · 1 year ago

My birthday just passed and I received a hand made card from my 12 yr old daughter with this inside: 'The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt within the heart.' a tearful moment to say the least!

Cecile · 1 year ago

PRESSURE MAKES DIOAMONDS...

Kirsty · 1 year ago

Hey Alligator...I just completed a writing workshop where Richard Bausch was a guest speaker. He recited his Ten Commandments which I believe originally appeared in a magazine article. I think he's got a book out there about the writing life as well. I'd pick it up; this guy's prolific and well-respected. (I've copied and pasted the full list below for you).

Best,
Kirsty

1. Read: "You must try to know everything that has ever been written that is worth remembering, and you must keep up with what your contemporaries are doing."

2. Imitate: "While you are doing this reading, you spend time trying to sound like the various authors -- just as a painter, learning to paint, sets up his easel in the museum and copies the work of the masters."

3. "Be regular and ordinary in your habits, like a Petit Bourgeois, so you may be violent and original in your work." -- borrowed from Flaubert

4. Train yourself to be able to work anywhere.

5. Be Patient. "You will write many more failures than successes. Say to yourself, I accept failure as the condition of this life, this work. I freely accept it as my destiny. Then go on and do the work. You never ask yourself anything beyond Did I work today?"

6. Be Willing. "Accepting failure as a part of your destiny, learn to be willing to fail, to take the chances that often lead to faulire, in the hope that one of them might lead to something good."

7. Eschew politics. "You are in the business of portraying the personal life, the personal cost of events, so even if history is part of your story, it should only serve as a backdrop."

8. Do not think, dream.

9. Don't compare yourself to anyone, and learn to keep from building expectations.

10. Be wary of all general advice.

Colette · 1 year ago

This is mine as well. I bought me a gold band with ten small, but flawless and near colorless diamonds. I wear it on the ring finger of my right hand. I made a promise to my self of being "above all else, to my own self be true." I also think of "to Be or not to Be," when I see my ring, or the reflecting light from it, and use it to remind myself to be in the moment, be in the now and to just let things be.

Colette · 1 year ago

My mother said that one many times as well, especially if some one was balking at doing something for the first time.

Tamara ModernGear TV · 1 year ago

The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn.
James Allen

Mackenzie Biggar · 1 year ago

If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

Sheri · 1 year ago

"I can give you the shirt off my back...I can get another one. I can give you the money in my pocket...I can get some more. Yet when I give you my time, you know how much I really love you...because, you see, it's the only thing I can't get more of."
-- Shep Lampkin, my dad

Colette · 1 year ago

After scrollong through and reading others, I am adding this, which is my own quote and my e-mail signature.
Love has the innate ability to look past the human and see the Godly.

Debbie R · 1 year ago

"People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did.
But people will never forget how you made them feel."

This quote by Maya Angelou sums up why I send cards!

Jen · 1 year ago

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso

This one stopped me in my tracks the first time I saw it. And it continues to reminds me of all that I can do.

and one of my own that I have to remind myself of often:
"It's all about balance... and to be truly balanced, sometimes you have to tip the scales"

Sarah · 1 year ago

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. "
Voltaire

Denise · 1 year ago

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." John Keates

Karen · 1 year ago

"When you leave this planet the only thing you leave behind is your reputation." Richard Haskayne

Sari · 1 year ago

Louis L'Amour

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

alligator_kate · 1 year ago

Thanks Kirsty!

CCR · 1 year ago

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. - Jim Rohn

JSuz · 1 year ago

"Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself." -- Anon
Other quotes come and go, but this one is a constant.

JSuz · 1 year ago

This is amazing -- I'm taking this one with me! Thanks for sharing!

Lyda · 1 year ago

"The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say." - Gregory David Roberts

Kim · 1 year ago

I love this quote - it is in my signature for my email. It fits perfectly for me as I'm such a feeler!

Ellen · 1 year ago

That's always the first that comes to mind for me. Love it.

JoeM · 1 year ago

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Teresa.

Ramona · 1 year ago

This quote sent chills down my spine (seriously)!!!

Ella · 1 year ago

"And the day came where the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin

Leah 48 · 1 year ago

My favorite: Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Cindy · 1 year ago

Yes, that is a great one! It is by Helen Keller.

Get Togetha · 1 year ago

This has been the poem that has saved my life on many occasions. Why are we so afraid to be the light of truth for the world and for ourselves? Why are we afraid to shine?

Leanne · 1 year ago

Time waits for no one. ~ Me

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't be cautious when you're aiming for extraordinary.

Get Togetha · 1 year ago

Desire
Discipline
Determination

Talent does not=success. It's persistence.

Get Togetha · 1 year ago

Resentment is a by-product of thinking small.

Zenia · 1 year ago

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." -- Carl Jung

And then I saw the following one the other day, not quite sure it fits the category of inspirational, but it moved me:

"Underneath and to the left is the heart."

Get Togetha · 1 year ago

Whomever calls someone a sellout-has never been given an offer.

Cindy · 1 year ago

I love this quote by Mother Theresa (it is kind of long, but worth it), it is called "Do It Anyway":

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self centered - love them anyway,
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives - do good anyway,
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway,
The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow - do good anyway,
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable - be honest anyway,
What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight - build anyway,
People that really need help may attack you if you help them - help them anyway,
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough - give the best you've got anyway,
Do all of this because it was never about them anyway, it is between you and God.

Tamara · 1 year ago

I have a friend who says a similar thing, a little more in the vernacular:

"Don't pray for a lighter load; pray for a stronger back."

Leanne · 1 year ago

and...
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius

Ellen · 1 year ago

Lots of favorites - my #1 is the Gandhi quote so many times mentioned here. I also adore Rumi and many other sufi mystics.
The Illuminated Rumi is a gorgeous book.

When you finally understand that you can generate that which you have been desperately looking for outside of yourself, you become the master of your life - Bartholomew

Enlightened ones are very rarely holy. In fact, they are often so outrageous that people look on them as crazy - Bartholomew

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. - W. Somerset Maugham

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. Aesop

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Muhammad Ali

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! - Richard Bach

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? - Richard Bach

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey

One is not born a woman, but becomes one. - Simone de Beauvoir

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. - Buddha

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure - Joseph Campbell

Think off-center. - George Carlin

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese

Krystl · 1 year ago

BE HERE NOW

Mary · 1 year ago

My Dad quoted this to me when I was going through a tough patch and it stays with me whenever I need a guide. I hope my children benefit as much.

marn · 1 year ago

1) "What other people think of me is none of my business". (not sure who said this one).

2) "You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair" Chinese Proverb

3) "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" Bill Cosby

Traci · 1 year ago

I have three favorites. They compliment each other beautifully, and I get the most out of them when I consider all three.

1. I am still learning. -Michelangelo
2. Life's a journey, not a destination. -Various
3. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

marianne · 1 year ago

"Get cape. Wear cape. Fly."

andrea · 1 year ago

A special quote that I often find use for,

"There are only two ways to approach life - as a victim or as a gallant fighter"

Merle Shain

Jamie Lees · 1 year ago

"Desire, ask, believe, receive" by Stella Terrill Mann. This I heard years and years ago before I became very involved with the law of attraction and intention movement.

The quote has completely altered my life and my thinking processes.

Andrea Devis · 1 year ago

The wise also will hear and increase in learning, and the person of understanding will acquire skill and attain to sound counsel [so that he may be able to steer his course rightly] - Proverbs 1:9 Amplified

There is no present. There is only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin

Jamie Lees · 1 year ago

Love Merle Shain, she really assisted in my growth through the '80's. Have all of her books.

Susie Hutchinson · 1 year ago

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
Oscar Wilde

Amy · 1 year ago

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

CeCe · 1 year ago

"Confront the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength."
August Wilson, playwright

kerrymac · 1 year ago

I actually used my favorite quote as a mission statement for my blog...here is how it reads on my About page:

Follow your bliss...

This has been a quote I've loved for years. I wear it around my neck on a sweet silver charm by Andrea Waines, I write it my journal, I preach it to my boys. I haven't been living it though and I am on a mission to change that. My life now is chaotic and in my search for "my bliss" I discovered I love being with my boys, all stuff creative, home decor, kid stuff, fashion, reading, recipes, taking photos, and blogging. So here I go. Keen and inspired to document moments that move me. I will share my fashion finds, yummy recipes, great reads and anything else that brings me bliss. Clearing my head, seeking clarity, being present, having fun. Sweet and simple like a Snikerdoodle cookie - with lots of cinnamon!

www.snickerdoodles.typepad.com

Ngonzi Truth Crushshon · 1 year ago

Love What You Do.

Do What You Love.

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

or like my friends Donna says, " we're all bozos on the same bus." Not as poetic, but same point of equality.

Dena · 1 year ago

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light . . .

verysheri · 1 year ago

These 3 act as my life motto for everything I do!

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr. Seuss

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
-Harold Thurman Whitman

"Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going."
-Chinese Proverb

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

"Be wary of all general advice." So good.
Thank you so much for this - I'm going to check him out. So many folks in this community are aspiring writers -- and lovers of good writing.
xo
D

Misty · 1 year ago

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." - Henry David Thoreau

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

yes, I think this quote is the ultimate in compassion.

verysheri · 1 year ago

So great - I need to remember this more often. I'm constantly replaying the past, the events of the day, what I 'should' have said or 'ought' to have done. My favorite other quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson (although it has a different flavor) is, "You can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

ah yes... I'm glad someone quoted the "Who are you not to be brilliant quote." It divine. It's actually from Marianne Williamson. It's one of the most mis-attributed quotes ever. It was read at a Stanford convocation and attributed to Mandela -- but it's from Williamson's lovely book, A Return to Love.

verysheri · 1 year ago

Thoreau is great, what a fabulous combination of sayings!
I love how this one makes me think: "In the long run, we only hit what we aim at".

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

that was my mantra for years. had it posted on my desk.

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

we're all laughing here in the studio.

verysheri · 1 year ago

WOW! that sure gives me pause to consider how I spend my 'free' time.

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

Reminds me of a similar Buddhist quote: "Make everyone you meet the object of your ultimate reverence."

Audrey · 1 year ago

"be the change you wish to see in the world"- Ghandi

"fabulous!"

"in the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few"- Tao te Ching

Kristin (The Goat) · 1 year ago

I never thought of it as compassion. But it is. Wow.

Gina B · 1 year ago

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." ~ Dan Stanford

Traci · 1 year ago

Oh, and when the journey has taken me to a place I'm not crazy about, and I feel a little lost,:
"Not all who wander are lost."

Karryn Ransom · 1 year ago

Oh! This is one of my all time favourites! The good doctor Seuss....It's gotten me through times where I felt misunderstood, misjudged, and wronged in general.

And Style Statement is ALL about being who you are.

Thank you for reminding me, today. All smiles.

Karryn Ransom · 1 year ago

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda
Wise and powerful Jedi Master

Natasha · 1 year ago

"All of my dreams have already come true" - don't know who said it, saw it on a piece of canvas art and put it up to remind me to "Live your dream" - another one, the tag of NY graffiti artist De la Vega.

Ellen · 1 year ago

Oops, forgot one (believe it or not).

"There is redemption in our flaws." - Louis Malle

Connie · 1 year ago

It used to be the Serenity Prayer but I'm getting absent-minded and a little looser and I like the late George Carlin's "It's all bullshit,
and it's bad for ya." They both work for me.

Lori · 1 year ago

That is a tough question as there are so many that I love!

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" Ghandi

"Your attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward you" Earl Nightingale

"Tension is who you think you should be, Relaxation is who you are" Chinese Proverb

Lori · 1 year ago

Love that one!!

janie · 1 year ago

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." R. M Rilke ("letters to a young Poet". Letter No. 4)

jamie · 1 year ago

Danette, I'm so glad you shared this one. I was absolutely going to share it but was so moved by the other today that I went with that one. Here's to coming alive!

karen · 1 year ago

I know that this makes me a style statement groupie, but i do find myself often remembering:

"Make more choices everyday"

"Feel free to change...regardless of who you were yesterday"

Thanks C and D!

Karen

karen · 1 year ago

YES on #3 -- it empowered me to start my own business, and here I am 8 years later loving my imagined life!

Laura · 1 year ago

Hear, hear, Tammy: "Leap and the net will appear" has been going through my head a lot the last few weeks as our renovation proceeds. It relates to both the financial outlay and the design choices which sometimes are a leap of faith. I too, found it in The Artist's Way but can't remember who actually said it.

Tegan · 1 year ago

"Be yourself, everyone else is taken." - I have no idea where I heard that or who said it, but it has stuck with me for many years. It always reminds me to stay true to myself.

Christine · 1 year ago

Hi Carrie and Danielle, I've been following the 'Style Statement' story for some time now and think you two are awesome! Love the concept, love the book and I love my style statement. It's fun to hear your musings on various topics as well.
Here's my favorite inspirational quote. It comes from the prophet, Micah, in the Bible's Old Testament:
Act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God. (Michah 6:8)
Cheers,
Christine, Summerland, BC

Tina · 1 year ago

I both work and have a wonderful family life so all 3 of these quotes really define my life!

"Bite off more than you can chew then chew like crazy!"
"Having a child is like having a piece of your heart forever running around outside your body" - jewish proverb
"The question I am asked daily by the world: Was that all you wanted?" - Genine Lentine

Benita · 1 year ago

There are so many beautiful quotes I have heard and I am grateful for those that have touched my heart in their various ways. Here's a recent one on Forgiveness."Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heal that has crushed it." -Mark Twain

Tammy · 1 year ago

Ooh, I thought of a few more...
"The fish is the last to know that it swims in water."- Chinese Proverb
"Work to live. Don't live to work."- I have no idea who said this, but I agree whole-heartedly.
And my email signature quote: "What good is a house if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?"- Henry David Thoreau
I love that one. :-)

Kathleen · 1 year ago

You do not have to be good.
"You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves."

Mary Oliver, from the poem Wild Geese

Rayonvert · 1 year ago

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

Mary Mary. I adore Mary Oliver.
Thanks for this.

Tara · 1 year ago

"If there is no dull determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement". I don't know who owns this quote, I jotted down some years ago - I always think about it when I'm working!

Kerry L. · 1 year ago

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing was a miracle, the other as if everything was a miracle." Albert Einstein

Daniel Gibbons · 1 year ago

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it."
Bill Murray

eloquencecomm · 1 year ago

"Nature always follows the path of least resistance." ~I hear it many places. It's just true.
"Play is anything done in joy - including work!" ~Scott Noelle, www.enjoyparenting.com
"Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another." -Elizabeth Stanton
"Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" — Sai Baba

Thank you each for all of the fabulous quotes you've shared! Loving them and feeling so inspired!

Carolynn · 1 year ago

I'm an unofficial collector of quotes. Here are three of my favourites:

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." Andre Gide

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Goethe

"The sun is always shining above the clouds." Anonymous

"Keep on swimmin', Keep on swimmin'." Dory

Ramona · 1 year ago

Ralph Waldo Emerson is my alter ego!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this quote. I repeat it to myself often.

Peace.

~Ramona

Ramona · 1 year ago

Gasp!!! It is official: I have cried three times today as a result of this question! Mary Oliver, I love you for having the courage to say this!

Celeste · 1 year ago

"There are multiple methods to de-fur a feline." not sure of source...love the view of life..

Betsy · 1 year ago

Never give up on someone that you can't go a day without thinking about. ~ unknown

Stephy · 1 year ago

"There is not a particle of life that does not carry poetry within it." ~Gustave Flaubert

Sharon · 1 year ago

hello lovely :) i love you. i think you must be the one and only danette for how could there be another.

chris · 1 year ago

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right".
Henry Ford

Gwyneth · 1 year ago

I live by this one;
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
He's my hero...

MelissaM · 1 year ago

Thanks for the clarification! Even better that it was spoken by a good hearted woman :) I will keep an eye out for that book.

Romana Mirza · 1 year ago

"You don't have to be something you're not to be better than you were" -- Sydney Poitier

Romana Mirza · 1 year ago

"We have created you male and female, and have made you into nations and tribes, in order that you might come to know one another. In the sight of God the noblest among you is the one who is most deeply conscious of God." Qur’an 49.13

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

love this. thank you.

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

"improving on silence" is a great concept that more of us should consider. BTW, I spent some time at Sai Baba's ashram in India. Quite a trip.

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

ooo...groupies unite. I must say, it's a wee thrill to be quoted. feel free, anytime, really.
xo
D

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

that's my #2 fav quote of all time.

eloquencecomm · 1 year ago

Jeez... frankly, I had never looked up Sai Baba. While I do love the quote - and believe it is rightful - I am horrified at what I found by a simple google search of his name. Maybe there is more than one Sai Baba - but my initial searches reveal a man that should not be celebrated for his guidance. I am so very curious about the "trip" the ashram experience was in light of my new learnings. And how you felt to learn the awful stories. Not that this is inspirational in any way... Sorry everyone!

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

yes - his character is under very serious question - so many allegations, and whether they are true or not, the fact that that's circulating around him throws a dark shadow in his good wisdom. The guru-devotee relationship isn't one that works for me, so I didn't invest much energy into tuning into the nasty or glorious stuff around him. But I am curious about many, many teachers, and he was one on my path...a literal path of teachers in India that I checked out.

kristi · 1 year ago

"Patience in one moment of anger prevents one hundred years of sorrow."

Chinese proverb (Confucioujs?)

Shantel · 1 year ago

Change before you have to - Jack Welch

Karel · 1 year ago

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." - Dalai Lama

karen · 1 year ago

when i travel/teach about color i often use your manifesto of style to energize the class and help them wake up to see the beauty all around them, the beauty that only they can create. yes, you are quoted!

kk

kristi · 1 year ago

Last night after posting a quote I keep on my fridge, I realized that there are so many others - mostly poetry - that inspire me.

I particularly love this poem from Antonio Machado from a book aptly titled "Ten Poems that Will Change Your Life" - it speaks to the power of forgiveness and so much more.


Last Night As I Was Sleeping

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.

Last night as I slept,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.

Translation from Spanish by Robert Bly - love it, love it, love it!

Lee-Anne · 1 year ago

"If you can't fight & you can't flee..... flow" (from As Above, So Below)

MarieLeona · 1 year ago

"Everything has a purpose, even if at times the purpose is not always obvious." My Mom.

Dolly Hopkins · 1 year ago

Life is not sn exact science it is an art - Samuel Butlerlin

You do not get to choose how your going to die or when. You only get to chose how you're going to live. Joan Baez

The power of imagination makes us infinite John Muir

Linda Diane · 1 year ago

Good intentions won't hold your butt up. -- Cher

(This short quote has kept me going at times when it would just be easier to give up. It's not just for exercise. It works for all goals).

LeahS · 1 year ago

I'm enjoying all of these, but this was a favorite I'd not seen in a while. As I tend to be risk averse, this is especially inspirational to me.

Jane · 1 year ago

"Blessed are thou who has created such as this," roughly translated from the Torah. I like it because it implies that the good and "bad" have value in making us who we are.

Mary · 1 year ago

"Finish every day and be done with it...You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it...serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

This quote got me through a very rough patch last year. I would read it every night before trying to fall asleep.

Carlo · 1 year ago

"I saw an angel in the stone, I carved, to set it free."
Michelangelo

Beth C. · 1 year ago

The lyrics to the song Forever Young, particularly the lines:

May you grow up to be righteous,
May you grow up to be true,
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you.
May you always be courageous,
Stand upright and be strong,
May you stay forever young.

Karryn Ransom · 1 year ago

From Abraham-Hicks: "Make a "career" of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy."

Vanessa Rae · 1 year ago

"I beg you... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer..." ~Rainer Maria Rilke