Patti Digh Quotes

#1. When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about.

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#2. Equip yourself for your own needs.

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#3. Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

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#4. Bikes are for riding; they're not car hats.

BikeSnobNYC

#5. I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

Joan Cusack

#6. Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

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#7. Eddie's got a broken arm. Why did I lead them down here? Christ! Why did I? "Bill? " Ben said anxiously.

Stephen King

#8. Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

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#9. Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.

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#10. Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.

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#11. We confuse what is complex (raising a child, finding more meaning in our lives) with what is complicated (sending astronauts to the moon, doing our taxes). Confusing the two, leads us to complicated solutions for things that are actually complex instead.

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#12. The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness ... I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community.

Larry Crabb

#13. Name your intention.

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#14. Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.

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#15. Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.

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#16. If you're alive, you're creative.

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#17. The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same.

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#18. Express your aliveness by giving - of yourself, of your resources, of your heart.

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#19. What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

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#20. Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.

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#21. Boredom is for the selfish.

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#22. We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time.

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#23. Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

Hugh Price Hughes

#24. The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Saki

#25. Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you.

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#26. We are always - always- in choice.

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#27. Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

John Templeton

#28. We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

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#29. And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like? I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?

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#30. As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

Fred Ward

#31. Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.

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#32. What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

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#33. The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#34. People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.

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#35. We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.

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#36. It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.

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#37. Change occurs at the edges, without permission.

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#38. If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance!

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