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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Piglet: “How do you spell love?” Pooh: “You don’t spell it, you feel it.”

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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

– Robert Brault

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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

– Albert Einstein

Don-Miguel-Ruiz on love

Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love.

– Don Miguel Ruiz

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

– Thomas Edison

Socrates on wonder and wisdom

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

-Socrates

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

-Morris West

Teilhard de Chardin

We are not human beings on having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

– Anatole France

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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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.

– Greek proverb

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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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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

– Henry David Thoreau

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If you hate your work, leave. If you hate your hate, leave that too.

– Buddhist proverb

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It is through the happy sharing of your treasures that you show other people that they are treasured.

– Neale Donald Walsch

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I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

– Lucille Ball

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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

– Ralph Marston

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

– Jonathan Safran Foer

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