Danielle LaPorte Quotes

Truth is a journey.

Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.

But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. — Khalil Gibran

"Getting "spiritual" was delaying getting real."

In real time where I’m at, it’s raining on my skylight and I can hear the washing machine spinning. I’m wearing my favorite mocha sweater, leggings, and moccasins. I plan to be here at my keyboard until dark. And as sure as I am that it’s raining, that there are moccasins on my feet, and that you’re breathing in and out as you read these words, I am sure that you are worthy of having what you want.

...that's what students of life do — they sign up to learn

Affirmations are like screaming that you’re okay in order to overcome this whisper that you’re not.

We’ll never be good at things we have to try to be good at.

Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.

We get so many societal messages about what the Right Dream is that it gets hard to decipher what our own dream is.

Own your extraordinariness and Your ordinariness

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. — Aristotle

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. — Albert Einstein

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you'll lose your edge.

But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other people’s pain into something beautiful?