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

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

– Anatole France

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If one lights a fire for others, it will also brighten one’s own way.

– Buddhist proverb

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Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning.

– Buddhist proverb

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You must be the change you want to see in the world.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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If you obey all the rules, you will miss all the fun.

– Katherine Hepburn

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You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

– Navajo proverb

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All we are given is possibilities – to make ourselves one thing or another.

– José Ortega y Gasset

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

– William Butler Yeats

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You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.

– Albert Einstein

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It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

– John Wooden

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