Hey there… you might call them quotes.
I call them Soul fuel. Spirit ticklers. Grassroots wisdom & funny bone grease.
MINDSET
The Law of Detachment- Deepak Chopra
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty…
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning.
And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities
We surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. –Brene` Brown
Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner. –Lao Tzu
Nothing is either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. –Shakespeare
The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home. –John O’Dononhue
Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. –David Whyte
From Mindset, by Carol S. Dweck
- Mindsets are just beliefs. They’re powerful beliefs, but they’re just something in your mind, and you can change your mind.
- If success means they’re smart, then failure means they’re dumb. That’s the fixed mindset.
- True self-confidence is “the courage to be open–to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.
- Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow.
Toxic Perfectionism, Self Talk and Comparison fuel the mindset that sandblasts our soul. –Dawn Kotzer
Event + Response = Outcome. –Jack Canfield, The Success Principle
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes. –Robert Kiyosaki
Uncertainty and the unknown are not things to endure; they are things to rely on. –John Tarrant ROSHI
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. –The Talmud
Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. –Judy Garland
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind. –Plato
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. –Plutarch
AMBITION
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.―Austin Kleon
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. ―Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Icon
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. ―Ray Bradbury
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do. ―Steve Martin, comedian
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally. —Seth Godin
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities –Abraham Maslow
Noah did not start building the Ark when it was raining. —Warren Buffett
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. —Malcolm S. Forbes
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. —Pyotr Tchaikovsky
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. —Eleanor Roosevelt
The most exciting thing to me is making the thing. How it’s received is gravy. —Meryl Streep
If you have something holding you back, you’re not going to move until you drop the baggage. Letting go of something is mandatory to make space for what you want. –Yaro Starak
When you stay focused and keep a commitment, you create momentum, and momentum creates momentum. —Rich Fettke
Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you. –Zig Ziglar
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. Arianna Huffington
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. –Francis of Assisi
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. –Winston S. Churchill
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. —Peter Drucker
CREATIVE SOUL FUEL
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. –John O’Donohue
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle. –Criss Jami, Salome`
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. –Deepak Chopra
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. –Henry Miller
What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. –Madeleine L’Engle, author
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn’t matter. The intent does Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another. –Seth Godin
When Ideas drive you to distraction, remember this:
Ideas stretch our imagination as we expand the world around us expands as well. –Dawn Kotzer
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity. –Deepak Chopra
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. –Joseph Chilton Pearce
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own Self-transformation. Lao Tzu
Abundance is Manifestation of energy already present. –Dawn Kotzer
Your invisible nature holds qualities and treasures that time can never damage. They belong absolutely to you. You do not need to grasp them, earn them or protect them. These treasures are yours; no one else can ever take them from you. –John O’Donohue
You’re only given a little spark of Madness. You mustn’t lose it. –Robin Williams
Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing is a field. I’ll meet you there. Rumi
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. ―Beatrix Potter
More men have become great through practice than by nature. –Democritus
Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. ―Red Haircrow
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. –George Bernard Shaw
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. –Minor White
Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances. –Aristotle
NATURE
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust
I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to put my senses in order. –John Burroughs
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. –Lao Tzu
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. –Warren Buffett
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
GRASS ROOTS WISDOM
Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. –Hohn Neal0
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. –Abraham Lincoln
Chaos is a delicate balance: enough for innovation, not too much for growth. –Hugh Macleod
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
John O’Donohue–
- When you are understood, you are at home. Anam ‘cara- Soul Friend (Gaelic)
- Natural wisdom seems to suggest that the way you are toward your life is the way that your life will be toward you
- Each tree grows in two directions at once; into the darkness and into the light.
Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength–
carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time.
Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. –Corrie ten Boom
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions. –Catherine Cook
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. –Robert Louis Stevenson
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. –Thomas Aquinas
There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team. –Jason Fried
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. –Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. –Mark Twain
SPIRIT TICKLERS
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh. ―Voltaire
Life is not a stress rehearsal. –Loretta Larouche
The Latin word Inspirare means ‘to breathe life into what is true’. Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” –Ram Dass
LIFE itself is a working title. –Dawn Kotzer:
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. –Chinese Proverb
Failure is the tuition you pay for success. – Chinese fortune cookie
Life is Uncertain. Surprises are common and an indication you are alive. –Roshi
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. –Maya Angelou
No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless. –Drake
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for? –Robert Browning
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
Funny Bone Grease
Laffing iz ze sensation ov pheeling good all over and showing it princibly in one spot. –Josh Billings, American humorist
It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. –John Steinbeck
Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground. –author unknown
Warren Buffett says that in the 1950’s he invested $100 in a Dale Carnegie public speaking course ‘not to prevent my knees from knocking when public speaking but to do public speaking while my knees are knocking.’
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. –Will Rogers
Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day. –Judd Apatow
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. –Milton Berle
Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. –Jon Stewart
There are three kinds of men: One that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. –Will Rogers