Kieves Quotes

#1. It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.

Tama J. Kieves

#2. You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.

Tama Kieves

#3. You're scared of sharing me in case you lose me?" - Adan

Shaye Evans

#4. Compliments are not things I know how to process.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

Tobias Hill

#6. I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

Tama J. Kieves

#7. Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.

Tama J. Kieves

#8. I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.

Margaret Thatcher

#9. Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

Albert Einstein

#10. Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourself and, instead, honor the intuition that tugs at you like a puppy on a leash in the park. Follow the magic and magic starts to follow you.

Tama J. Kieves

#11. In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.

Eileen Myles

#12. No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way,

Tama Kieves

#13. Love does not call us to the dance only to deny us chances . There is consistency in this journey. As in the beginning, so shall it be in the middle and the end. Love does not tempt us to leave what we know, only to leave us without direction, resources, synergy and flow.

Tama J. Kieves

#14. You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable" responses or you can listen to the sweet madness in your bones.

Tama J. Kieves

#15. Any statement or claim that contradicts reason and valid experience cannot be upheld. Therefore, as Buddhists, we must discard any tenet that may contradict reason and valid experience.

Dalai Lama XIV

#16. Run, run, run - with everything you have - into everything you are meant to be.

Tama J. Kieves

#17. You let go of fear by focusing on love. Love is the answer to fear.

Tama Kieves

#18. You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

Tama J. Kieves

#19. Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

Tama J. Kieves

#20. You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.

Tama J. Kieves

#21. Artists ... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

Henry Adams

#22. The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

Tama J. Kieves

#23. Just start dancing and the band will find you.

Tama J. Kieves

#24. If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

Tama J. Kieves

#25. WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

Tama J. Kieves

#26. Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

Philip Pullman

#27. Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers, and brilliant souls to take their passion into the marketplace.

Tama J. Kieves

#28. When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before.

Tama J. Kieves

#29. We live in a world that worships limitations

Tama J. Kieves

#30. What is your real work? Is it that which pays the bills or is it your art? I think your real work is healing. Whatever helps you become more loving in this lifetime. Whatever helps you forgive yourself, embrace yourself, meet yourself, and free yourself in this lifetime.

Tama J. Kieves

#31. You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

Tama J. Kieves

#32. Give three hundred seconds to your dream. Take a tiny step with big integrity. It takes a step to break to break into a run. The result at hand doesn't matter. The resolve does. Show up for your love. Showing up always shines.

Tama J. Kieves

#33. William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

Willa Cather

#34. We don't choose our wildest dreams. They choose us.

Tama Kieves

#35. I need you. I need you to hate, so I can use you for your energy

Curtis Jackson

#36. You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.

Tama J. Kieves

#37. Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

Tama J. Kieves

#38. There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

Tama J. Kieves

#39. Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from purity. Purity wails. Integrity taps a nerve. Inspiration slips beneath the skin of yoru skin and turns disinterested strangers into warm-bodied kin.

Tama J. Kieves

#40. These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all.

Tama Kieves