From books, articles, podcasts, social media & more, here are some quotes I’ve highlighted, underlined, or scribbled down recently.
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it—basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
“The two most powerful impulses in my life have been the urge to create and the urge to be—a set of opposites—and they have always clunked into each other.”
“You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong.”
“My God, how much easier was it to think about death as letting go of some part of life: leaving behind a job, a relationship, a self, a pattern, a way of being, a hundred different things? Now I realize: they are all practice. Each a rehearsal for death, challenging my clinging and resistance, developing my soul’s facility to turn loose and open to what is new and unknown.”
“We write to taste life twice; in the moment and in retrospection.”
“I don’t know if I can change the world but I can change my world.”
“It’s always easier to maintain a positive vibration away from negativity than in its presence.”
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.”
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“Whatever you do won’t be enough. Try anyway.”
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and beautiful at the end.”
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem.”
