Let Your Life Speak Quotes

“From first days in school, we are taught to listen to everything and everyone but ourselves, to take in all our clues about living from the people and powers around us.”
― Peter Palker

“So I lined up the loftiest ideals I could find and set out to achieve them. The results were rarely admirable, often laughable, and sometimes grotesque. But always they were unreal, a distortion of my true self -- as must be the case when one lives from the outside in, not the inside out. I had simply found a "noble" way to live a life that was not my own, a life spent imitating heroes instead of listening to my heart.”
― Parker Palmer

“My youthful understanding of "Let your life speak" led me to conjure up the highest values I could imagine and then try to conform my life to them whether they were mine or not. I that sounds like what we are supposed to do with values, it is because that is what we are too often taught. There is a simplistic brand of moralism among us that wants to reduce the ethical life to making a list, checking it twice -- against the index in some best-selling book of virtues, perhaps -- and then trying very hard to be not naughty but nice.”
― Parker Palmer

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live -- but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.”
― Parker Palmer

“Strive to be the most passionate, energetic, and tenacious professional in your clique.”
― Germany Kent