Patti Digh Quotes & Sayings

We are always - always- in choice. — Patti Digh

We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time. — Patti Digh

The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same. — Patti Digh

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are. — Patti Digh

When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about. — Patti Digh

People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you. — Patti Digh

Name your intention. — Patti Digh

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place. — Patti Digh

Change occurs at the edges, without permission. — 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

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

It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one. — Patti Digh

Equip yourself for your own needs. — Patti Digh

If you're alive, you're creative. — 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

And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like? I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then? — Patti Digh

Don't be afraid to fall in love with ideas, with places, with subjects, with people. You'll fall in and out of love many times, but this is how we figure it out. This is how we learn what we love, this is how we recognize what we want, this is how we know what we need and, maybe just as important, what we do not need. — Patti Digh

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life? — Patti Digh

Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list. — 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

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up. — Patti Digh

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them. — 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

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

Express your aliveness by giving - of yourself, of your resources, of your heart. — Patti Digh

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life. — Patti Digh

Great change doesn't come with official endorsement. — 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

If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance! — Patti Digh

Boredom is for the selfish. — Patti Digh

Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own. — Patti Digh