32 Quotes by Patti Digh

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

We confuse what is complex (raising a child, finding more meaning in our lives) with what is complicated (sending astronauts to the moon, doing our taxes). Confusing the two, leads us to complicated solutions for things that are actually complex instead.

Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.

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.

It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.

Equip yourself for your own needs.

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

Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.

When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about.