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    “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
    tags: generosity, gifts, giving, giving-space
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    “Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.”
    ― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
    tags: change, inspiration, life-paralysis, self-confidence
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  • #3
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: differences, diversity, pay-attention
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  • #4
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: change, prioritize, relax, simplify, slow-down, to-do-list
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  • #5
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: change, courage, encouragement, irony, power
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  • #6
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: courage, death, living-life-to-the-fullest-bold, playing-it-safe
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  • #7
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: titles, verb, write, writer, writing-life
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  • #8
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: bad-business, bullies, bullying, courage, humor-inspirational
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  • #9
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: diversity, inclusion, mindfulness, open-mindedness, welcome
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  • #10
    Patti Digh
    “Equip yourself for your own needs.”
    ― Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life
    tags: self-growth, self-sufficiency, strength-and-courage
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  • #11
    Patti Digh
    “If you're alive, you're creative.”
    ― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative
    tags: creative-expression, creativity, encouragement-and-attitude
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  • #12
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: art, artists-life, creativity, question-do-what-you-love
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  • #13
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: authority, change, life, make-a-change, open-mindedness, rules
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  • #14
    Patti Digh
    “Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.”
    ― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative
    tags: artists, creative, real-life
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  • #15
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: artists-life, choose-our-own-destiny, create, keep-on-going
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    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: fear, motivation, self-reflection, understanding-oneself-and-others
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  • #17
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: complex, complicated, solving-problems
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  • #18
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: generosity, normal, offering-help, open-mindedness, support
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  • #19
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: behavior, change, patterns, pay-attention
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  • #20
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: inspirational
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  • #21
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: life, reading
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  • #22
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: be-present, being-intentional, live-fully, living-life-to-the-fullest
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  • #23
    Patti Digh
    “Change occurs at the edges, without permission.”
    ― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
    tags: change, instincts, permission, take-a-chance
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  • #24
    Patti Digh
    “The shortest distance between two people is a story.”
    ― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives
    tags: common-bonds, getting-to-know-someone, humanity, story
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  • #25
    Patti Digh
    “Express your aliveness by giving - of yourself, of your resources, of your heart.”
    ― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives
    tags: feeling-alive, give, resources, share
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  • #26
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: change-your-life, choices, daily-living, future, inspiration, small-stuff
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  • #27
    Patti Digh
    “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
    tags: control, let-it-go, take-a-step-back, trust
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  • #28
    Patti Digh
    “We are always - always- in choice.”
    ― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative
    tags: choice, choose-our-own-destiny, personal-power
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  • #29
    Patti Digh
    “Name your intention.”
    ― Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life
    tags: be-clear, claiming, focus, intention, name-it, speaking-your-mind
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  • #30
    Patti Digh
    “Boredom is for the selfish.”
    ― Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life
    tags: boredom, boredom-and-attitude, keep-learning, moving-forward, selfishness
    6 likes



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