Danielle LaPorte (quotes)

Love the necessary hard work.
It’s a great privilege to dream.
Laughter is the honey of life.
Passionately protest mediocrity.
Surprise your doubts with action.
Feeling good is the primary intention
Acknowledge your pain, don’t deny it.
Launch and learn. Everything is progress.
Gratitude puts everything into perspective.
All communication begins with an intention,
Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.
Make generosity part of your growth strategy.
Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.
Joy is the clearest indicator of deep wellness.
Joy is the most Magnetic Force in the Universe!
You don’t have to be fearless. Just be sincere.
If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.
You don’t need to be burned out to go on hiatus.
Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.
The best place to begin is always with gratitude.
If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.
Admit to your contentment so it can tip over into joy.
Life is full of opportunities to feel exactly the way
Bring your pain into the light and everything changes.
Forget about being impressive and commit to being real.
Don’t let perfection become procrastination . Do it now.
You need to be comfortable to make others uncomfortable.
Don’t let your want for perfection become procrastination
The secret to success: Do what you say you’re going to do.
And that’s how you create what’s never been created before.
If you’re making art, you are not separate from your brand.
Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.
The world reflects back to you how much you value yourself.
Start leaving what you want to leave. Your future is waiting.
Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment.
Someone you haven’t met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.
Whatever is on your plate got there because you said yes to it.
Determination can be a battle or a thrill. Choose to be thrilled.
The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.
Pull over to the side of your journey and look how far you’ve come
Say it, do it, make it anyway – but tell YOUR story along the way.
Almost any decision is better than no decision — just keep moving.
Gratitude is like love or fresh air – you can’t get too much of it.
If it doesn’t light you up, you’re not the right person for the job.
Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.
Your passion is your qualification. It’s your leading qualification.
Passion will always move you in the direction of your authentic self.
The gratitude you receive from others is a reflection of your genius.
The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.
Decide to get over it. You know, just let it go. It can be that simple.
What you stop doing is just as important as the things you start doing.
Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.
Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.
I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I’ve learned is the stuff of mastery.
You will fail. At some point. More than once. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.
Your most valuable currency is what comes most naturally to you. Cash in!
Almost any decision is better than no decision – just keep moving.
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I only want to hit my targets if the aiming and the hitting both feel good.
I would rather get out of the game than stay in the game to change the game.
It’s not about the goal, it’s about how you want to feel when you get there.
Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.
The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.
If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?
What if desire wasn’t an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?
Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.
Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.
You always have access to your truth. You always have access to the divine feminine.
get clear on how you want to feel. Then, do stuff that makes you feel that way.
Your success is directly proportional to the quality of the relationships in your life.
Prana is more powerful than just about anything – food, exercise, skin creams, and Spanx.
We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.
Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.
If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.
Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it’s one of the best feelings there is to feel.
There’s a time and purpose for being lost. If you don’t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.
Happiness is like rising bubbles — delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen — ever present.
People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy.
The biggest threat to your creativity is the fear that it’s already been done, said, created. (So why bother?)
The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.
Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.
I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.
Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.
If you don’t do what Fear says…you’ll go ahead and speak up, you’ll sign up, you’ll buy, you’ll sell, you’ll jump.
You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.
When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.
Feel free to change. When you discover something true about yourself, put it in action regardless of who you were yesterday.
Gratitude is one of the most creative and noble forces of human nature. It makes everything – absolutely everything – better.
When I’m speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.
It’s not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it’s doing meaningless things that aren’t taking you where you want to go.
Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.
Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.
Grief thinks scars make for great tattoos. Accept that you’ll never be the same. Trauma marks you. Embrace how much more dimensional you’ve become.
Admit that it stings. “Ouch. That’s hard to hear. But I’m up for it.” Honesty when criticized is a great equalizer and a show of nobility and maturity.
Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.
Life balance is a myth. It’s an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it’s about proportion – it’s really a work hard/play hard equation.
Grief needs to hear your story told. Speak it out to a sacred listener. Be witnessed. And then… tell a new story, one that includes the description of how you healed.
The foundation of a good relationship with intentions & goals is keeping in mind that the primary aim of setting and working toward them is to feel the way you want to feel.
If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you’re missing out on the power of real integrity.
Apologizing makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Expressing gratitude makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Maybe there’s something to this vulnerability/strength connection, eh?
Words can make you sick. Or healed. – Words create worlds because the universe is always listening… and so are your cells, your psyche, and your children, your team, and the apples
The surest sign that you’re working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don’t complain very much about doing what it takes.
I can’t help you. Not really. I can only show up with a bright heart and hope that I get you at the right micro-moment with the perfect dose of light that helps you see what you already know.
Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.
Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.
Structures, how-to’s, dogma, principles…all disciplines and theories should be used to support your freedom and independent thinking. Curiosity is exponentially more powerful than playing by the rules.
If you’re being asked to improve in some way, then ask for specific measurables … you can’t run a race if you don’t know where the finish line is. Be extra diligent about checking in on mutual satisfaction.
Be compassionate to your criticizer. This can really soften the situation. Giving honest criticism is no fun for most people, and it’s often a case of, “This is going to hurt me as much as it might hurt you.”
My friend and coach reminded me this week that there is a moment when the acrobat lets go of one trapeze and is completely suspended in mid-air before she catches the incoming rung. You have to let go to get there.
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?
Feel free to bring it up again, even if it was a closed subject. “I thought more about what you said and I just wanted to let you know that….” It’s better to clear the air after the fact than it is to bury your feelings.
Denying grief her power squelches your vitality. You can dream and laugh and march on, but until you swallow the bitter tea that Grief has brewed, things won’t be as vibrant or grounded as they could be. And that’s half dead.
Denying grief her power squelches your vitality. You can dream and laugh and march on, but until you swallow the bitter tea that Grief has brewed, things won’t be as vibrant or grounded as they could be. And that’s half dead.
Sometimes, you need to stop taking your medicine to let your body heal itself. Sometimes, you need to pause so you can move forward. Sometimes, you need to turn away from something so you can see why you fell in love in the first place.
When you decide to go after a new dream, you need to give less to your current reality and more to your desired reality… Take your energy out of what you don’t want to be doing anymore so you can put it in what you really want to be doing.
Sometimes even feeling bad feels good. Negative emotions can feel so familiar (especially if they mimic our past) as to actually be comforting. Awareness is realizing that our life could always be better. Growth is doing what it takes to make it better.
I focus for periods of time on creative work and I’m very insular during those times – not a lot of socializing. I play when I want. That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends. My core desired feelings are my time management system.
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 lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone – profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.
Why are you afraid? This is where you get it out of your system: bankruptcy, unfulfilled potential, trashing your reputation, losing it all. And then (because we just can’t stop there), you’re going to apply some simple analysis to it.You may have nothing to fear after all.
In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases, satisfaction sets in, sweetness surfaces. I believe in the creative power of good feelings. I’m convinced that the desire to be real is everyone’s divine imperative.
You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired…it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s been through it.
Consider that you radiate. At all times. Consider that what you’re feeling right now is rippling outward into a field of is-ness that anyone can dip their oar into. You are felt. You are heard. You are seen. If you were not here, the world would be different. Because of your presence, the universe is expanding.
Self-criticism is not love, and it is certainly not indifferent. It’s a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for what it is (raw and uncomfortable and saddening), when I refuse to sugar-coat self criticism, judgment, agitation, and constantly trying to improve myself, then I’m one quantum leap closer to freedom.
The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me. For me it’s all about focus. To get the Fire Starter Sessions digital book out it was about three months of intense focus. I let my friends know that I probably wouldn’t be hanging out of returning their phone calls. It wasn’t about doing the dishes, I ordered a lot of pizza, and I just completely put myself in the creative bubble.
Sometimes it’s best to just listen and simply say, “I’ve heard you. Let me process what you’ve said and I’ll get back to you tomorrow.” So many of us are so adrift from our deep sensitivity that it takes some time to clearly know how we feel. So just take the time, it’s better than a half-cocked reaction that you’ll regret. And if you do say something you regret, or you don’t say what you think you should have…
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life. And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home.
Choose just one positive money emotion—the one that feels the most vital and exciting to you—and think of one action you can take in each of the money areas below that will help you feel that way: 1. How you spend money. 2. How you save money. How you give money. 4. How you receive money. 5. How you manage money. For example, if the feeling you want the most around money is gratitude, what can you do when spending your money to feel grateful? Is it keeping a gratitude journal for the things you buy, or being extrapolite to sales clerks, or saying a quiet “thanks for the ability to pay my bills” when you’re writing a check to the electric company?

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