Danielle LaPorte Quotes

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.

The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.

If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.

Gratitude is like love or fresh air - you can't get too much of it.

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.

What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.

First. get clear on how you want to feel. Then, do stuff that makes you feel that way.

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.

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.

Joy is the clearest indicator of deep wellness.

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.

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.

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.

Passionately protest mediocrity.

Whatever is on your plate got there because you said yes to it.

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.

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.

I only want to hit my targets if the aiming and the hitting both feel good.

Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.

Joy is the most Magnetic Force in the Universe!

There’s a time and purpose for being lost. If you don’t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.

You need to be comfortable to make others uncomfortable.

The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.

Passion will always move you in the direction of your authentic self.

If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

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.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.

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.

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.

Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.

Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

It's not about the goal, it's about how you want to feel when you get there.

Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

Launch and learn. Everything is progress.

Gratitude puts everything into perspective.

Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination

Surprise your doubts with action.

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.

People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy.

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?

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.