Patti Digh Quotes

Name your intention.

If you're alive, you're creative.

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

Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives are books? What is the sign of our presence? Are we pressing into the margins our interpretations and questions? Are we circling offending verbs and drawing furious arrows to the margin where we scrawl "irony," "frustration," "voiceless," "unfair!" Or do we simply turn the pages, passively receiving what's given, furiously disagreeing but remaining silent about it?

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

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

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.

Change occurs at the edges, without permission.

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

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

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

Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.

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

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

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.

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

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

Don't be afraid to fall in love with ideas, with places, with subjects, with people. You'll fall in and out of love many times, but this is how we figure it out. This is how we learn what we love, this is how we recognize what we want, this is how we know what we need and, maybe just as important, what we do not need.

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.

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

Equip yourself for your own needs.

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