What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?
Danielle LaporteRead
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.
Interpretation
Understanding your desired feelings can guide your decisions and actions more effectively.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness regarding one's emotions. By clearly identifying how you want to feel, you gain insight that can help shape your choices, navigate challenges, and align your actions with your true desires, leading to a more fulfilling life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing personal goals.
What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?
The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.
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.
I worked for Harper’s Bazaar. They fired me. I recommend that you all get fired; it’s a great learning experience.
It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.
A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.
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