What inspires? What sparks creation?

There are as many answers to this as there are ideas. Leading clients through the ideation process is one of the several services we provide at Dawn. Often we use quotes to spark a discussion. We seek out quotes where the writer skillfully uses words to express and illuminate an idea in a powerful or provocative way. You’ll find some of our favorites here, including ones that have the power to alter a mindset. If you’re looking for a favorite author or a particular subject, use our search function to find these quotes from the illuminating nuggets we’ve collected.

Chodron_If we learn to open our hearts

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

– Pema Chödrön

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

– Rumi

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.

– Samuel Butler

Be the person your dog thinks you are

Be the person your dog thinks you are

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.

– Pablo Picasso

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

– Byron Katie

That which does not kill us makes us stronger

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

The Buddha on Happiness

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single source and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases from being shared.

– The Buddha

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly.

– Proverb

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

– Richard Branson

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First hold peace within yourself, only then can you bring it to others.

– Thomas à Kempis

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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

– Roger A. Caras

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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

– Émile Zola

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Life is a cycle, always in motion, if good times have moved on so will times of trouble.

– Indian proverb

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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

-The Buddha

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Don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones.

– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

– Arnold H. Glasow

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the actions.

– Confucius

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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

– Confucius

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