Recently Enjoyed Quotes: Winter 2021

From books, articles, podcasts, social media & more, here are some quotes I’ve highlighted, underlined, or scribbled down recently.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it—basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
— Charles Bukowski
The two most powerful impulses in my life have been the urge to create and the urge to be—a set of opposites—and they have always clunked into each other.
— Sue Monk Kidd in "Traveling with Pomegranates"
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong.
— From "Sweet Darkness” by David Whyte
My God, how much easier was it to think about death as letting go of some part of life: leaving behind a job, a relationship, a self, a pattern, a way of being, a hundred different things? Now I realize: they are all practice. Each a rehearsal for death, challenging my clinging and resistance, developing my soul’s facility to turn loose and open to what is new and unknown.
— Sue Monk Kidd in "Traveling with Pomegranates"
We write to taste life twice; in the moment and in retrospection.
— Anaïs Nin
I don’t know if I can change the world but I can change my world.
— Anders Solvarm on the Apple TV show "Home"
It’s always easier to maintain a positive vibration away from negativity than in its presence.
— Michele Harper in "The Beauty in Breaking"
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.
— Goldie Hawn
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
— Pablo Picasso
Whatever you do won’t be enough. Try anyway.
— Barack Obama
All change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and beautiful at the end.
— Robin Sharma on the Yoga Girl podcast
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
— John Lennon
The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem.
— Alain de Botton
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