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When we give ourselves permission to go wherever our outlandish thoughts take us, we feel that rush of creativity and excitement.


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JULIA CAMERON When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.
ELOISE RISTAD We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig...
PATRICIA SUN When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask...
GEORGE O'NEIL Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our...
MAUPASSANT Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!
SCOTT LYNCH When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with oursel...
JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON We are looking for him to give us that extra bit of creativity.
ANDY ROBINSON Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancest...
PHYLLIS GEORGE Either we control our thoughts and emotions, or our thoughts and emotions will take hold of us.
SHELLY KAY WALDE If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch
LEWIS THOMAS We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.
LEWIS THOMAS The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When ...
ERIC HOFFER The recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When pe...
CHARLES EAMES They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other ti...
JEN CAMPBELL I get bursts of creativity with bursts of physical activity.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. W...
JOHN ROBBINS When we have doubt in our abilities we need to ask ourselves to transform the thoughts that are limi...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I am never proud to participate in violence, yet, I know that each of us must care enough for oursel...
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LARRY VANDERHOEF We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations...
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ALEX PATTAKOS We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on wh...
JONES VERY It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and...
DAISAKU IKEDA I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never ...
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ST. TERESA OF AVILA The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's min...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA I think I'm more difficult than critical.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be w...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the me...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easie...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA In the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their na...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The r...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, includin...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Peace begins with a smile.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a bro...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of ...
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