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

There’s no such thing as work-life balance. It’s all life. Be fully present in life.

– Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

– Anna Lappe

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Life isn’t about making your day, it’s about making someone else’s.

– Sarah Marshall

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Nothing endures but change.

– Heraclitus

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

– Albert Einstein

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I don’t put off to tomorrow doing what I must do, right now, to find out what my secret self needs, wants, desires with all its heart.

– Ray Bradbury

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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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The heart has it’s reasons of which reason knows nothing.

– Blaise Pascal

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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

– Diogenes

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Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

– Eckhart Tolle

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