Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
Patti Digh
Top 10 Best Quotes
“People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.”
“Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.”
“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?”
“Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.”
“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.”
“If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance!”
“Change occurs at the edges, without permission.”
“The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same.”
“Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.”
“We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.”
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