Patti Digh > Quotes

“Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.”
― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives

“The shortest distance between two people is a story.”
― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives

“People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“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?”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“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.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“Change occurs at the edges, without permission.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“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.”
― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives

“Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance!”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“Equip yourself for your own needs.”
― Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life

“Name your intention.”
― Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life

“We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you.”
― Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life

“Boredom is for the selfish.”
― Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life

“Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time.”
― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives

“We are always - always- in choice.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. —Japanese proverb”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days To Wake Up, Be Mindful, And Live Intentionally

“What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: 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.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“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.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative