Danielle LaPorte > Quotes

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
― Danielle LaPorte

“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”
― Danielle LaPorte

“You will always be too much of something for someone:too big, too loud, too soft,too edgy.If you round out your edges,you lose your edge.Apolozise for mistakes.Apolozise for unintentionally hurting someone profusely.But don't apolozise for being who you are.”
― Danielle Laporte

“Consider that you radiate. At all times. Consider that what you’re feeling right now is rippling outward into a field of is-ness that anyone can dip their oar into. You are felt. You are heard. You are seen. If you were not here, the world would be different. Because of your presence, the universe is expanding.”
― Danielle LaPorte

“Care more about being accurately and precisely who you are, than caring what someone might think about you.

Be daring enough to tell us--your customers, your fans, your people--about your deep desires and ambitions, because we?ll be the ones to help you fulfill them.

You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.”
― Danielle Laporte

“Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.”
― Danielle Laporte

“When you hang with your tribe, you feel invigorated, recognized, and understood—you can’t underestimate the powerful effects of being fortified in that way. When you have your tribe on speed dial, you’ve got all the resources you need to fuel up, fly straight, and head back out to face the world at large.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

“She was having a hard time managing her feelings at this point, mostly because she hadn't felt them in so long-they confused her... After you've been numbed for a while, disorientation is a natural reaction as you come back around. It's like waking up from anesthesia and not knowing exactly where you are.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map Experience: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“You can’t always choose what happens to you, but you can always choose how you feel about it.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

“When we want to feel courageous more than we want to check accomplishments off our list … When we want to feel free more than we want to please other people … When we want to feel good more than we want to look good … then we’ve got our priorities in order. Divine priorities—the kind that will steer you to the life you long for most deeply.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“As the legend goes, when the Phoenix resurrects from the flames, she is even more beautiful than before.”
― Danielle LaPorte

“Awareness is realizing that our life could always be better. Growth is doing what it takes to make it better. When we choose the positive over the negative, liberation over repression, truth over illusion, we become real creators.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully. —Mark Epstein, Open to Desire”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“Self-doubt is so insidious that it not only renders us stuck in our lives, but it also actually weakens our ability to dream about what living unleashed would look like.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

“When you know someone’s dream you look at that person differently—with more tenderness, respect, familiarity, sympathy, and generosity than before. Look at everyone you meet this week and actively think to yourself, “I wonder what their dreams are?”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. —Lawrence Pearsall Jacks”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

“Your life is your art. When you make tough choices in favor of your Soul, you’re making a masterpiece out of your existence.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“THE ESSENCE OF YOUR DESIRE IS A FEELING”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“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.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“Affirmations are like screaming that you’re okay in order to overcome this whisper that you’re not.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“Detachment is hard on your heart — and it actually creates blocks to what you want. Non-attachment, on the other hand, is actually nourishing, and much easier to put into practice.

DETACHED is rigid; a bit chilly, a tad cranky; like an uptight intellectual, cut off from his/her heart. And here’s the thing, detachment is often a cover up for fear — fear of not getting what you want. Detachment is defending itself against disappointment — which is why it’s a bit bitchy.

There’s another way of wanting that’s both rational and faith-fuelled: Non-attachment.

NON-ATTACHMENT is open and spacious. It can hold your intense longing, and it can hold possibility. Non-attachment knows that some things take time, that you have to meet the universe half way, that free will is the guiding force, and that anything is possible.

As Michael Beckwith said to me, “Detached is, ‘I’m not playing anymore. I’m taking my ball and going home.’ Whereas non-attached is ‘I’m playing full-out, but I’m not attached to an outcome.’” Ya, THAT.”
― Danielle LaPorte, White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path - from One Seeker to Another

“Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.”
― Danielle LaPorte

“So I admitted it: “I’m a humanitarian.” And then I put a fine point on it: “Who happens to be an entrepreneur.” And then I really declared it. “And I think I can protect myself without fucking anyone else over.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

“If you “follow your bliss…you will begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you,” said Joseph Campbell, explaining his theory of the “invisible hands” that help you through life.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

“Your Soul is everything. The “Am That I Am.” Your beingness. The you that is simultaneously part of the all. The God that is aware of itself. Unfathomably, your Soul is the stuff of eternity, time without end, spanning space and dimensions. It is the Love of All Loves. It is the inextinguishable Source of Light. Your Soul is home.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“epidemically often, we go for the external win at the cost of our internal wellness.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“Just like an ocean can be pounding the beach with waves yet be perfectly calm at its depths, our feelings may look destructive, or inappropriate, or negative, when really they are expressions of something incredibly hopeful coming from deep within us. So, on some days, an angry outburst might really be a wave of creative energy coursing through you. Fight for your rights! Or that tremor of grief could be the stirring of your most tender compassion. What looks like fear might actually be excitement.”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“I am the joy that I've fought for”
― Danielle LaPorte, White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path - from One Seeker to Another