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.

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

– The Dalai Lama

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We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

– Albert Einstein

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Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

– Ashleigh Brilliant

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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely.

– Roald Dahl

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

– Samuel Beckett

Change your thoughts and you change your world

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

– Norman Vincent Peale

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

– Helen Keller

Some see a weed

Some see a weed, some see a wish.

– Proverb

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Sometimes, said Pooh, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

– A.A. Milne

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The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

– Amelia Earhart

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

– Eckhart Tolle

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

– Oscar WIlde

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You travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

– Lao Tzu

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Live simply so that others may simply live.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

– Mark Twain

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

– Chinese proverb

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I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

– Annie Lamott

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