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.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.

– Steve Goodier

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Thomas à Kempis

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

– Marie Curie

The Buddha says that we are not punished for our anger, we are punished by our anger. In other words, anger is its own karma.

– Eknath Easwaran

Be water, my friend.

– Bruce Lee

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

– George Bernard Shaw

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

– Patti Smith

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

– Lao Tzu

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

– E.B. White

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If everything was perfect, it wouldn’t be.

– Yogi Berra

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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

– Albert Einstein

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Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

– Mark Twain

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

– Aristotle

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

– Thomas à Kempis

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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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In this earth, in this soil, in this pure field, let us not plant any seeds other than seeds of love and compassion.

– Rumi

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We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

– C.G. Jung

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