Danielle LaPorte Quotes - Page 2

Make generosity part of your growth strategy.

Life is full of opportunities to feel exactly the way you want to feel.

Feeling good is the primary intention

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

I can't help you. Not really. I can only show up with a bright heart and hope that I get you at the right micro-moment with the perfect dose of light that helps you see what you already know.

Your passion is your qualification. It's your leading qualification.

Joy is the clearest indicator of deep wellness.

Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.

Almost any decision is better than no decision -- just keep moving.

The biggest threat to your creativity is the fear that it's already been done, said, created. (So why bother?) Say it, do it, make it anyway - but tell YOUR story along the way. The story of how you came to know what you know. The story of what you want to know more of. The story of why you do what you do. The story of how you came to care. And that's how you create what's never been created before.

The world reflects back to you how much you value yourself.

The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.

Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for what it is (raw and uncomfortable and saddening), when I refuse to sugar-coat self criticism, judgment, agitation, and constantly trying to improve myself, then I'm one quantum leap closer to freedom.

Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.

Sometimes even feeling bad feels good. Negative emotions can feel so familiar (especially if they mimic our past) as to actually be comforting. Awareness is realizing that our life could always be better. Growth is doing what it takes to make it better.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.

Passionately protest mediocrity.

Passion will always move you in the direction of your authentic self.

Someone you haven't met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.

Pull over to the side of your journey and look how far you've come

Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.