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Patti Digh

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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?

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02Undated

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?

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03Undated

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

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04Undated

If you're alive, you're creative.

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05Undated

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

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06Undated

Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.

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07Undated

We are always - always- in choice.

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08Undated

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

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09Undated

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

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10Undated

The shortest distance between two people is a story.

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11Undated

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.

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12Undated

Name your intention.

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13Undated

Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.

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14Undated

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

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15Undated

Boredom is for the selfish.

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16Undated

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.

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17Undated

Equip yourself for your own needs.

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18Undated

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

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19Undated

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.

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20Undated

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

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21Undated

Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you.

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